La rete smagliata di "presença"

According to a firmly established critical tradition, in the period between the two world wars the magazine «Presença» (1927-1940) played a major role in the creation of a modernist network that connects Portugal with a wider European context. This paper, through the scrutiny and analysis of some magazines and by enlarging the view to other equally important publications of the period, aims to reconsider how instrumental «Presença» was in the consolidation of a modernist and international literary canon in Portugal