In Portuguese modernist literature, which literary magazine published in two issues in 1915 launched the modern vanguard movement in Portugal?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Orpheu
- Step 1: Founded by Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Almada Negreiros, and Ronald de Carvalho in 1915. Step 2. Orpheu scandalized conservative society with futuristic, sensationist, and intersectionist poetry. Answer: Orpheu. Why not the others: Presença was the second modernist phase (1927); Cadernos de Poesia emerged in 1940; A Águia was the journal of the Renascença Portuguesa.
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