João Cabral do Nascimento: um autor contemporâneo apagado de um certo retrato de família

João Cabral do Nascimento was a contemporary of some of the artists who, around the 1910s and the 1920s, sought to modernize their cultural systems, through modernist discourses and projects. This contemporaneity has been substantiated through Cabral de Nascimento’s contact with some of the most important artists of the period and through his effective participation (sometimes critical) in several of the events that, in Lisbon, as well as in Coimbra and Funchal, marked the different orientations of the Portuguese modernisms. Recovering both the Pessoan verb constellar-se, and the constellation image (also Benjaminian) to think about the relationship between texts and authors, this article revisits several chronicles and critical texts by Cabral de Nascimento, to discuss his heterogeneous modernist contemporaneity and the silence that has fallen on the work of the author from Madeira.