Miguel Torga is between Best The António Arnaut was still a
young, just-permitted in Right for the University of Coimbra, when the poet knew Miguel Torga. The first meeting, in the decade of 60, had place in the
doctor''s
office, the Plaza of the Toll gate, in Coimbra, where the
writer dressed however the writer skin, however the skin of doctor of general clinic, also specialist in “ears, nose and throat”. Arnaut it did not have any problem of health but, on this day, he was obliged to make analyses - not literary doctors but yes. A “interrogation” was subject to on the workmanship of Torga and passed. It was an intervention politics of António Arnaut,
lawyer and former-minister of the Health, in which he was present Miguel Torga and the friend Fernando Valley, that took it until the o doctor''s office of Adolph Rocha. Days before, the words of the young lawyer had caught the attention of Miguel Torga. “Who is that youngster? ”, the Fernando asked to the writer Valley. “He is a lawyer of Penela”, answered. “Have-of taking it it my doctor''s office”, asked for Torga. Soon in the first meeting, Days before, the words of the young lawyer had caught the Torga simpatizou with Arnaut and vice versa. Since then, the lawyer started to frequentar the doctor''s office - “the room of wait of many generations of democrats and on people to the culture of Coimbra”. In one of the first visits, António Arnaut dared to ask for the Torga that autographed the book “Rebellious Orfeu”. Except for rare exceptions, the writer did not give autographs - Arnaut was unaware of the fact. A time more, Torga opposed to sign it the book but it gave a hope rip to it: “It does not discourage, because one day, if deserving, I give an autograph to it”. The words “enervaram” the young lawyer: “It is knowing that never it will give an autograph to me, because not me subject to that judges my merit”. The subject more was not boarded. Today, with 71 years, António Arnaut continues not to have an autograph of Miguel Torga, an almost insignificant detail when placed to the side of more than three decades of friendship and “familiar conviviality”. The lawyer, whom he knows of color and attacked sets of ten of excerpts of books torguianos, “Slope” is detainer of the workmanship, amended for Miguel Torga for a new edition that did not arrive to be published. Of the estate of Arnaut they also make has broken a clandestine edition of the story book “Mountain” (later intitled “Stories of the Mountain”), learned for the censorship in the decade of 40, and an interior plate of the medical doctor''s office of the writer. “It is a blue plate with white letters, very pretty, in enamel” where if Adolph Rocha reads “Rocha - Heard, Nose and Throat”. Arnaut was one of the patients of general clinic of the doctor Adolph Rocha. “The Torga always was a great physician, not only because medicine wise person, as well as because it knew the soul human being”. “Poet of the Portugalidade” Miguel Torga also simpatizou with Maria Ermelinda, wife of António Arnaut. Reason? “Because it made a kid baked in the oven that it also found formidable” and because Maria Ermelinda was aldeã. “My woman was born in a village of Penela. We walked together in 4.ª classroom”, explains the husband. “Its woman remained aldeã, you not. It conserves the root wrinkled in the
land where she was born, as I. You, being a peasant, it traiu its origins, it was desenraizou. He is today more city dweller of what agricultural”, the Arnaut said Torga. “Torga was a telluric writer”, explains the friend. “For it, the authenticity resulted of the harmony between the man and the nature. In first place, Torga had a deep linking Is Martinho de Anta”. For decreasing order, little importance did not give Backwards-the-Mount, Portugal and to the “Iberian land”. Arnaut remembers a phrase of the author: “my telluric native land arrives at the Pyrenees, but my civic native land fiWhite Bark”. For António Arnaut, “the Torga, that if assumed as a peasant, is a poet of the Portugalidade” - “the love for the native land, the taste for literature and the responsibility of the citizenship avivou me”. António Arnaut knew Miguel Torga and Adolph Rocha. “As doctor, it was equal to as much others. As writer, he was one of the best ones of the Portuguese language”. On the double personality of the man who lived six decades in Coimbra, the lawyer relembra words of the authorship of Miguel Torga, published by vol. VI of the “Daily one”, in 1953: “He is good this of being doctor and poet/is the two young dar/os comes to ask for me aid because I make old versos/os because I can medicate them. When per the morning I open the door of tenda/há always two citizens inside of me dialogar/um to say badly of the destination and the other to say well”.
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