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“Elegantly printed on high-quality paper, Orpheu 1 was available for general purchase toward the end of March and immediately began to make news. On March 30, A Capital published an extensive front-page review titled “Literature from the Insane Asylum: The Poets of Orpheu.” Contesting the pretensions to novelty of this “group of young men who can often be spotted in some of the downtown cafés,” the reviewer said it was old stuff, analyzed fifteen years ago by the eminent psychiatrist Júlio de Matos, who had”
― Richard Zenith, Pessoa: A Biography