CAPUCHOS TALKS

This year’s Capuchos Conversations, held in anticipation of another edition of the Capuchos Music Festival, are guided by the festival’s central theme: Loves and Moods.

This will be the occasion for the opening conversation between two writers for whom the theme resonates deeply. Laughter and tears in literature will animate the encounter between Rui Cardoso Martins – an author recognized, since his debut with the novel "E Se Eu Gostasse Muito de Morrer", for his uniquely distinctive sense of humor – and Ana Bárbara Pedrosa – an emerging literary voice and the author, among other works, of the novel "Amor Estragado".

In the second conversation, we bring together two writers, distinguished literature professors, and extraordinary translators to discuss "Gulliver’s Travels". Jonathan Swift’s book, published exactly 300 years ago, continues to surprise us in many ways, not least through its humor. The erudition of Jorge Vaz de Carvalho and Manuel Portela will undoubtedly provide us with a deeper understanding of a central work in the literary canon.

To close this series of Conversations at the Âmbito Cultural space of El Corte Inglés, ahead of the Music Festival taking place in the municipality of Almada from May 23 to June 24, we mark the centenary of the death of Camilo Pessanha, the great Symbolist poet who, following a heartbreak, exiled himself to Macau for the last thirty years of his life. University professor Gustavo Rubim, a specialist in the works of the author of Clepsidra, and poet-researcher Catarina Nunes de Almeida, who also studies him with great passion, will help us discover that from Camilo Pessanha, there remains more than just “shells, pebbles, little pieces of bone.”

Carlos Vaz Marques
Curator and moderator of the Capuchos Talks