RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 58

September 2007


PART XVII:
Fiction


See also items 157, 158 & 160.

124. AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. As mulheres do meu pai, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 382 pp. ISBN: 978-972-20-3377-0. $35.00

First published May 2007; this second edition appeared in June. Novel in which Faustino Manso, the famous Angolan composer, dies leaving seven widows with eighteen children. His youngest daughter, a film director, tries to reconstruct the turbulent life of the dead musician. The scene shifts from Luanda, to Benguela and Namibe, Namibia, Cape Town, Maputo, Quelimane, and Moçambique Island, mixing women, music, and magic, and announcing the rebirth of Africa through the vigor of its women and the secret powers of its ancient gods. The author's O vendedor de passados, billed as a novel full of ferocious satire depicted with good humor, reflecting current Angolan society, was first published April 2004; the third edition appeared in October of the same year. The publisher claimed that over 15,000 copies were printed. José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha], a native of Huambo (b. 1960), has resided in Luanda, Rio de Janeiro, and Lisbon, where he was working as a journalist until fairly recently. He has previously published collections of short stories, novels, a novella, and—in collaboration with his fellow journalist Fernando Semedo and photographer Elza Rocha—a work of investigative reporting on the African community of Lisbon, Lisboa Africana (1993), as well as a biographical novel about Lidia do Carmo Ferreira, the Angolan poet and historian who disappeared mysteriously in Luanda in 1992. In 2002 he published his novel O ano em que Zumbi tomou o rio. Catálogo de sombras, first published in October of 2003, appeared in a third edition that December. His books have been translated into several European languages. See Manuela R.M. Augusto in Biblos, I, 84-5; also Moser & Ferreira, A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa, 423-6.


125. AGUIAR, Cristóvão de. Passageiro em trânsito: novela em espiral ou o romance de um ponto a que se vai sempre acrescentando mais um conto. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Salamandra, 1994. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 172 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-689-065-9. $25.00

First published in Ponta Delgada: Editora Signo, 1988. This second edition is said to be "Uma nova versão, inteiramente reformulada". The author, born at Pico da Pedra, Ilha de São Miguel, 1940, has written at least 3 volumes of poems (2 self-published), and 15 volumes of prose; in addition he translated Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations for an edition published by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1982. The first volume of his diaries Relação de bordo (1999), was awarded the Grande Prémio de Literatura Biográfica APE/CMP for the year 2000. A second volume appeared in 2000. The work of Cristóvão de Aguiar has also appeared in various anthologies and reviews.


126. BRAGA, Teófilo (1843-1924). Contos tradicionais do povo português. Preface for this edition by João Leal. 2 volumes. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1995-1998. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 280; 301 pp. ISBN: 972-20-0206-6; 972-20-0207-4. 2 volumes. $55.00

Originally published in 1883. This edition also includes the author's preface to the 1914 second edition.


127. CABRITA, António Cegueira do rios. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1994. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 92 pp., (2 ll., 1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-708-223-8. $18.00

The author of these short stories, António Cabrita, has written at least two volumes of fiction, and four of poetry. He also co-authored a play about Camilo Castelo Branco with Maria Velho da Costa.


128. CAJÃO, Luís. O inventor de fantasmas, contos. Armanda Andrade, illus. Lisbon: Escritor, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 167, (1) pp., (4 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972–8334–40–6. $25.00

Writer of fiction, essayist, translator and musicologist, [José] Luís Cajão was born in Figueira da Foz, 1920; he lived a number of years on the island of Príncipe. He was awarded the Prémio Ricardo Malheiro in 1971 by the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa for a book of short stories, Um Castelo na Escócia. His short stories have been translated into Russian, Bulgarian, Spanish and German. See Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 91; Taborda de Vasconcelos in Biblos, I, 841-2; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 59-61.


129. CARDOSO, Orlando. O espanto da lua, contos. Armanda Andrade, illus. Lisbon: Escritor, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 86 pp., (6 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972–9484–44–9. $20.00

The author's volume of poems, Trinta dias em maio, was awarded the Prémio Ary dos Santos by the Câmara Municipal de Grândola, 1991.


130. CASTELO BRANCO, Camilo. Amor de perdição. Edição genética e crítica de Ivo Castro. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2007. Very lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 473 pp., (2 ll.), illus., occasional footnotes. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1531-7. $45.00

The introduction by Ivo Castro occupies pp. [9]-121. Included are Camilo's prefaces to the second and fifth editions. The texts of the "genética" and "crítica" editions begin on pp. [124] and [125] respectively, and continue on facing pages to pages 472-3.


131. CASTRO, João Osório de. O milagre da pedra. 2nd ed. Júlio Gil, illus. (Lisbon and Mafra?): ELO, 1992. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 121 pp., (1 l.), illus. (some in color). ISBN: 972-9181-18-7. $18.00

On the dramatist and short story writer João [Fonseca] Osório de Castro (b. Lisbon, 1926), see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 467-8.


132. CASTRO, João Osório de. Ninguém me pode vender a Arrábida. 2nd ed. Júlio Gil, illus. (Lisbon and Mafra?): ELO, 1992. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 116 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 972-9181-19-5. $18.00


133. CASTRO, João Osório de. Os sustos do senhor inspector. (Lisbon and Mafra?): ELO, 1992. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 216 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), color illus. ISBN: 972-9181-20-9. $25.00


134. CLÁUDIO, Mário, pseud. [i.e. Rui (Manuel Pinto) Barbot Costa]. Guilhermina, romance. 5th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 151 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-972-20-3314-5. $28.00

Fictionalized biographical sketch of the musician Guilhermina Suggia. First published by the Imprensa Nacional, 1986. The author, born in Porto, 1941, has published at least 20 volumes of fiction, some of which were awarded literary prizes, as well as at least 5 volumes of poetry, two each of theater and criticism, 5 volumes of essays and travels, a photobiography of António Nobre, and an anthology. He has also translated William Beckford and Virginia Woolf, and wrote, under his real name, a book on illiteracy in Portugal. His work has been translated into English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 129-31; also Cristina R. Cordeiro Oliveira in Biblos, I, 1168-9.


135. GUERRA, Álvaro, pseud. (i.e. Manuel Soares). A guerra civil, romance. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 452 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1083-2. $45.00

Historical novel based on the wars between the liberals and conservatives in Portugal, 1828-1834. In his famous "Trilogia dos Cafés," composed of Cafe República, Café Central, and Café 25 de Abril, Guerra returned to the nineteenth-century narrative form, in order to give an account of every day life in Portugal from the era of the First World War to the aftermath of the revolution of 25 April 1974. His Crónicas Jugoslavas was awarded the Grande Prémio de Crónica by the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, 1997. Journalist and author of a number of works of fiction, he served as a cultural attaché and ambassador. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 232-3; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 384-6.


136. HESPANHOL, João. Porto Santo: Antonião. Porto: Caixotim, 2007. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 134 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-8100-06-1. $30.00

Rather fantastic novella about a young adventurer from the Island of Porto Santo. The author has published at least one previous novella.


137. LEAL, Leonilde. As mãos de Vitoriana, contos. Armanda Andrade, illus. Lisbon: Escritor, 1993. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 149, (1) pp., (5 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972–9484–35–X. $20.00

The author has published at least four novels, seven volumes of short stories, an imaginary diary, and six volumes of poetry, one of which, Na lassidão do sono, was awarded the Prémio Raul de Carvalho.


138. MANGAS, Francisco Duarte. Ladrão de viotetas. Lisbon: Teorema, 1995. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 90 pp., (1 l. advt.). Small dampstain in lower outer corner of first and last few leaves. ISBN: 972-695-243-3. $16.00

The author's first work of fiction was the novella Diário de Link, originally published in 1993. It won the Prémio Carlos de Oliveira. Born in Rossas, Vieira do Minho, 1960, Mangas has worked as a journalist for the Diário de Notícias, and has published a number of other books, including several volumes of poetry. His novel Geografia do medo (1997) was awarded the Prémio Eixo Atlântico de Narrativa Galaico–Portuguesa.


139. MARQUES, Helena. Ilhas contadas, contos. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 142 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972–20–3169–1. $25.00

Helena Marques' first book, the novel O último cais (1992; 9th ed., 2006), was awarded the Grande Prémio Romance e Novela da A.P.E.; Prémio "Maxima" Revelação; Prémio Literário Círculo de Leitores; the Prémio Máxima de Revelação and Prémio Bordallo da Literatura by the Xasa da Imprensa. It was translated into German, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Greek. Her novel Os íbis vermelhos da Guiana (2002), had three editions within less than a year. A journalist born in Carcavelos, 1935, she has worked for Diário de Notícias, A Capital, Jornal do Comércio, República and A Luta. See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, pp. 338-9.


140. MELO, [José] Dias de. Pena dela saudades de mim. Lisbon: Salamandra, 1994. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 126 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-689-063-2. $20.00

The author of these short stories, a native of the freguesia da Calheta de Nesquim, Ilha do Pico, has published at least 25 books, including poetry, essays, and short stories, as well as several novels.


141. NAVARRO, António Rebordão. A praça de Liège. 2nd ed. Venda Nova: Bertrand, 1996. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 245 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-25-0958-6. $25.00

Second part of a trilogy, first published 1988; this novel was awarded the Prémio Literário Círculo de Leitores. The author's Romance com o teu nome (2004) was awarded the Prémio Florbela Espanca (2003) by the Câmara Municipal de Vila Viçosa. On this author of at least 10 volumes of poetry, 12 novels, a book of short stories, several other volumes of prose, 2 volumes of plays, and editor of an anthology of poetry by Jorge de Lima, born Porto, 1933, see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 335-6. The first part of the trilogy, Mesopotâmia (1985) was awarded the Prémio Internacional Miguel Torga. Parábola do passeio alegre (1995), was the third part. Rebordão Navarro has been awarded several other literary prizes.


142. NORTON, Cristina. O afinador de pianos. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1997. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 209, (1) pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–1–04322–2. $35.00

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143. NORTON, Cristina. O afinador de pianos, romance. 2nd ed., revised. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 221 pp. ISBN: 978-972-20-3269-8. $35.00
The author, a native of Buenos Aires (b. 1948), began in 1961 to publish stories and poetry in the literary supplements of various Lisbon journals. Later she settled in Portugal, studying fine arts and art history, and adopting Portuguese nationality. O afinador de pianos, her first novel, is about a piano tuner from Madrid whose profession takes him to Galicia at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, then on to the Lisbon of Salazar, and later to the Buenos Aires of Juan Peron and Evita. It was originally published by Europa–América in 1997. In 2002 she published another work of historical fiction, O segredo da bastarda (4th ed., 2003). The principal character of her novella, O Lázaro do Porto (2000, 2 eds.), is João da Foz, later known as Lázaro, bastard son of a poor baron and a laundress, born during the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula: the action takes place during the wars between the absolutist D. Miguel and the "liberal" sibling D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil (King Pedro IV of Portugal, a.k.a. D. Pedro, Duke of Bragança), opposing his brother on behalf of his daughter D. Maria II. Another novella, A casa do sal (2006), is the love story of Mário, a native of the Algarve from Tavira whose family has suffered economic reverses, and his wife, Irene.


144. RODRIGUES, Urbano Tavares. Obras completas. Volume I: A porta dos limites; Vida perigosa; A noite roxa. Preface by Eugénio Lisboa. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 495 pp. ISBN: 978-972-20-3328-2. $50.00

The preface occupies pp. 9-17. At least nine additional volumes are promised of these "complete works". On the widely-acclaimed and prolific author of fiction, researcher, essayist, literary critic, professor Catedrático jubilado at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, and member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (born Lisbon, 1923), 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.


145. RUAS, Joana. O claro vento do mar. Venda Nova: Bertrand, 1996. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 410 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-25-0960-8. $36.00

The author has written several works of fiction, as well as journalistic accounts of events in Guiné during and just after independence. Her novel A pele dos séculos (2001) was set in Portuguese Guiné during the struggle for independence. Another, Corpo colonial (1981), received honorable mention by a Jury of the APE. She has also contributed poetry and prose to a variety of reviews, newspapers, literary supplements, and other periodicals.


146. SANTOS, Arnaldo [Moreira dos]. A boneca de Quilengues. Porto: Asa, 1992. 8°, publ. bds. with d.j. 142 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-41-1081-8. $30.00

The author was born in Ingombota, one of the old "bairros" of Luanda, in 1935. He has published at least three volumes of poetry, five of short stories, this novella, and two novels. A volume of essays, Tempo de Manhungo, was awarded the Prémio Mota Veiga in 1968. Arnaldo Santos is represented in various anthologies published in Germany, Algeria, Brazil, England, Italy, Portugal, Kenya, Russia and Sweden. Not in Moser & Ferreira, A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa, but see 76, 79, 80, 86, 91, 94, 109, 111, 129, 133, 141, 152, (178), 200, 216, 230, 242, 258, 276, 279, 293, 1306-14, 1315, 1526, 1527, 1529, 1533, 1535, 1548, 1549, 1562, 1567, 1598, 1630, 1647, 1696, 1712, 1715, 1718, 1727, and 1731.


147. SILVA, Otilina. A balada do Chícharo, romance. Lisbon: Colibri, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 220 pp., (4 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-772-729-2. $30.00

Lena attempts to transmit to her grandaughter, Cláudia, in a series of messages which take on absurd aspects, the history of their family, with origins in the concelho of Alvaiázere, from the first half of the twentieth century to the year 2006. The author of this novel lived from 1950 until 1975 in São Tomé. She has written at least nine previous books.