translation of Guerra Junqueiro’s satirical poem A Velhice do Padre Eterno
Guerra Junqueiro played an extremely important role in Portugal’s cultural scene. He was labelled the “Portuguese Victor Hugo” (*) due to his importance and was considered by many to be the greatest Portuguese social poet of the 19th century.
(excerpts of some poems)
“In such a way, the pope imitated the simplicity
Of the martyr of Calvary,
That, for so much spending his assets on poverty,
He became a millionaire.”
… (SAINT PETER’S MONEY)
“Because down here, the big guys
Never lacked for anything either;
They had beliefs and millions…
God likes honorable people like that.”
… (THE MASS GRAVE)
“This God, Masella, is a plebeian and humble God,
Whose signature does not give, at the Rotschild bankers,
Any credit; a barefoot and proletarian God,”
… (TO THE NUNCIO MASELLA)
Some texts are astonishingly relevant today, which only proves that, at the level of intentions and socio-economic practices, in one hundred and forty years human society has not changed at all.
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About the Book
The book contains twenty-eight poems of widely varying lengths, from ten lines (The Bogeyman) to over five hundred (Holy Week), and the themes range from pious or personal lamentation;
“O souls who live pure, immaculate,
In the moonlight tower of grace and illusion,”
… (TO THE SIMPLE)
to the most ferocious social, moral, religious, radical and revolutionary criticism:
“These are brutal desires, it is flesh in full orgy,
Finally, the saturnalia of the rotten bourgeoisie,
Who prays like the pope and laughs like Voltaire.”
… (HOLY WEEK)
About the Author
Alice Enamour
Table of Contents
copyrights
Explanatory note
Introduction
TO THE SIMPLE
THE LORD’S VINEYARD
CHARITY AND JUSTICE
THE BOGEYMAN
PARASITES
RESPONSE TO «SILLABUS»
THE BAPTISM
EURICO
THE TREE OF EVIL
HOLY WEEK
THE BOAT OF ST. PETER
LITANY
HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER
THE WATER OF LOURDES
ANTONELLI
SAINT PETER’S MONEY
TO THE NUNCIO MASELLA
MODERN LITANY
THE BLACKBIRD
CIRCULAR LETTER
THE BLESSING OF THE LOCOMOTIVE
THE HYDRA
THE MASS GRAVE
MR ABBOT’S NAP
THE GENESIS
GHOSTS
Post Scriptum
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