1990, ISBN: 9721029629

Livro de bolso

[EAN: 9789721029620], [PU: Mem Martins, Publicações Europa-América, (1990?).], NOVELLA, NOVELLAS, FICTION, PORTUGAL, PORTUGUESE LITERATURE, EXISTENTIALISM, DECADENCE, ALENTEJO, SIGNED PRE… mais…

[EAN: 9789721029620], [PU: Mem Martins, Publicações Europa-América, (1990?).], NOVELLA, NOVELLAS, FICTION, PORTUGAL, PORTUGUESE LITERATURE, EXISTENTIALISM, DECADENCE, ALENTEJO, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED EROTIC, 175, (1) pp., (2 ll. advt.). 8°, original illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Author's eight-line signed presentation inscription on half title to [Luís Manuel] Monteiro Baptista, a close friend. Fifth edition, revised, of a collection of stories which first appeared in 1959.They constitute a part of the second phase of the author's fiction, characterized by an amplification of the erotic combined with an increased political conscience. The preface by Óscar Lopes, which occupies pp. 11-25, originally appeared in the second edition, published in 1966.Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (born Lisbon, 1923), grew up in Moura, in the Alentejo, in a family of large landowners. Widely acclaimed and prolific author of fiction, researcher, essayist, literary critic, professor Catedrático jubilado at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, he is the winner of many literary prizes, and a militant communist. His earliest works were greatly influenced by existentialism, in particular following the literary model of Albert Camus. Simultaneously, they display a certain Portuguese turn-of-the-century decadence, particularly influenced by Fialho de Almeida (especially obsessive evocations of the Alentejo), António Patrício and Manuel Teixeira Gomes, authors discussed in critical essays by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, and later in his doctoral thesis.@Provenance: Luís Manuel Monteiro Baptista (1926-2009), distinguished Portuguese physician and Communist Party militant, published a number of articles in scientific journals.See Machado, @Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 422-3. Cristina Robalo Cordeiro in @Biblos, IV, 909-13. @Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 296-8. Jacinto Prado Coelho, ed., @Dicionário de literature (4th ed.), I, 203; II, 509; III, 954; @Actualização, pp. 681-2.<

1990, ISBN: 9721029629

Livro de bolso

[EAN: 9789721029620], [PU: Mem Martins, Publicações Europa-América, (1990?).], NOVELLA, NOVELLAS, FICTION, PORTUGAL, PORTUGUESE LITERATURE, EXISTENTIALISM, DECADENCE, ALENTEJO, SIGNED PRE… mais…

[EAN: 9789721029620], [PU: Mem Martins, Publicações Europa-América, (1990?).], NOVELLA, NOVELLAS, FICTION, PORTUGAL, PORTUGUESE LITERATURE, EXISTENTIALISM, DECADENCE, ALENTEJO, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED EROTIC, 175, (1) pp., (2 ll. advt.). 8°, original illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Author's eight-line signed presentation inscription on half title to [Luís Manuel] Monteiro Baptista, a close friend. Fifth edition, revised, of a collection of stories which first appeared in 1959.They constitute a part of the second phase of the author's fiction, characterized by an amplification of the erotic combined with an increased political conscience. The preface by Óscar Lopes, which occupies pp. 11-25, originally appeared in the second edition, published in 1966.Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (born Lisbon, 1923), grew up in Moura, in the Alentejo, in a family of large landowners. Widely acclaimed and prolific author of fiction, researcher, essayist, literary critic, professor Catedrático jubilado at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, he is the winner of many literary prizes, and a militant communist. His earliest works were greatly influenced by existentialism, in particular following the literary model of Albert Camus. Simultaneously, they display a certain Portuguese turn-of-the-century decadence, particularly influenced by Fialho de Almeida (especially obsessive evocations of the Alentejo), António Patrício and Manuel Teixeira Gomes, authors discussed in critical essays by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, and later in his doctoral thesis.@Provenance: Luís Manuel Monteiro Baptista (1926-2009), distinguished Portuguese physician and Communist Party militant, published a number of articles in scientific journals.See Machado, @Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 422-3. Cristina Robalo Cordeiro in @Biblos, IV, 909-13. @Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 296-8. Jacinto Prado Coelho, ed., @Dicionário de literature (4th ed.), I, 203; II, 509; III, 954; @Actualização, pp. 681-2.<