RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 59

December 2007

PART XIX:
Fiction


See also items 66, 84, 85, 86, 120 & 124.
94. ALVES, Fernando José. O sossego dos anjos. Lisbon: Colibri, 2007. Tribuna Livre. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 405, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-972-772-734-6. $45.00

The author was born in Luanda, 1961. At a very young age he moved to the hamlet in the Alentejo of his parents, Vale dos Gaviões, in the Concelho do Gavião. At the time this book appeared he was living in Portalegre. This novel is his first book. It takes place just prior to the 25 April 1974, and deals with a man torn between his passion for two women.


95. BESSA-LUÍS, [Maria] Agustina [Ferreira Teixeira]. Adivinhas de Pedro e Inês. 4th ed. Lisbon: Guimarães, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 222 pp., (l l. colophon). ISBN: 972-665-507-2. $30.00

First published 1983.


96. BRUNO, [José Pereira de] Sampaio (1857-1915). Os três frades e outros textos de ficção. Paula Lobo, ed. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2007. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 229 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l. colophon). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1608-6. $45.00

On Sampaio Bruno, see Joel Serrão in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 86-7; Pinharanda Gomes in Biblos, IV, 1082-4; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 397-8.


97. CORREIA, João de Araújo. Contos e novelas: contos bárbaros, contos durienses, terra ingrata. Preface by João Bigotte Chorão. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2007. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 393 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l. colophon). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1582-9. $55.00

The preface, original to the present edition, occupies pp. 7-19. This is the 5th edition of Contos bárbaros, which first appeared in Régua, 1939; it is the 3rd edition of Contos durienses, which was originally published in Régua, 1941; and the 4th edition of Terra ingrata, which was first published in Lisbon, 1946.


98. COSME, Leonel. A separação das águas (Angola 1975-1976). Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007. Campo da Literatura, 150. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 475 pp., (1 l., 1 l. advt.). ISBN: 978-989-625-186-4. $50.00

This is actually part IV of a four–part novel. When the third part was published, part I was referred to as Os sinais do futuro. When it was published in 1983, part I was re-named A revolta. Part II (A terra da Promissão) appeared in 1988. A hora final (A revolta—III) appeared in 1992. Each part stands as an independent novel.


99. COUTO, Mia. Cada homem é uma raça, estórias. 9th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2005. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 183 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0071-8. $25.00

First published in 1990. A total of 25,000 copies are said to have been published. Born in Beira, Mozambique, in 1955, Mia Couto was editor of the review Tempo and of the newspaper Noticias de Maputo. His first novel, Terra somnambula, appeared in 1991 (8th ed., 2004); a second, Estórias abensonhadas, followed in 1994 (7th ed., 2003). A varanda do frangipani (1996, 7th ed., 2003), has achieved both critical and commercial success. He has published several collections of short stories, at least one of which—the present Vozes anoitecidas—was translated into English and published by Heinemann; his books have been translated as well into Spanish, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Dutch. He has also published a book of poetry. In 1999 Mia Couto was awarded the Prémio Vergílio Ferreira for his work as a whole.


100. MACHADO, Carlos. O homem que viveu duas vezes. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2007. Grandes Narrativas, 376. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 289 pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN: 978-972-23-3845-5. $38.00

This novel, the author's first, was awarded the Prémio Alves Redol, 2006, by the Câmara Municipal de Vila Franca de Xira. It is set in an obscure hamlet the North of Portugal in the 1940s. Alcina, the local schoolteacher, falls in love with João Hermínio, who dreams of making his fortune in Brazil. He achieves his goal while she remains, enveloped in nostalgia for her first love.


101. MARTINS, Florida and Maria Cândida Teixeira. Tecido de afectos em fios quatro-zero. Introduction by Maria de Lourdes de Magalhães Oliveira. Lisbon: Colibri, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 44 pp., (1 l. colophon). Color illustrations. ISBN: 978-972-772-743-8. $15.00

Four short stories.


102. MOURÃO–FERREIRA, David. Gaivotas em terra. 10th ed. Lisbon: Presença, 2007. Grandes Narrativas, 23. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 232 pp. ISBN: 978-972–23–2132–7. $28.00

The author's first work of fiction. This novel in the form of four novellas was awarded the Prémio Ricardo Malheiros, 1959, the year of its first edition. This tenth edition contains a preface by the author which appeared for the first time in the seventh edition, 1988.


103. MOURÃO–FERREIRA, David. Os amantes e outros contos. 10th ed. Lisbon: Presença, 2007. Colecção Grandes Narrativas, 341. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 141 pp., (3 pp. advt.). ISBN: 972-23-1584-5. $25.00

"Os amantes" was first published in 1968. An illuminating preface by the author, "Para o 'Dossier' deste livro" appeared in the fourth edition, 1988 (revised from an article in Os Amantes ou a arte da novela em David Mourão–Ferreira, 1984). The author has added "Adenda ao 'Dossier'" to the eigth edition edition, 1998. The book also contains a "Posfácio" by Eduardo Prado Coelho, which appears to have been written for the second edition, 1974.


104. PEPETELA, pseud. [i.e. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos]. Predadores, romance. 4th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 383 pp. ISBN: 972–20–2895–2. $35.00

First published September 2005. This fourth edition of this novel about the chaotic conditions in Angola on the eve of independence appeared in September 2006. The Angolan–born author was awarded the Prémio Camões for the totality of his literary output. The Prémio Camões was described by the publisher as "the most important literary prize in the Portuguese language." The author of this novel has also written Muana Puó (1978—3rd ed., 2002); O desejo de Kianda (1995—4th ed., 2001); Mayombe (1980—10th ed., 2005); O cão e os caluandas (1985—6th ed., 2003); Yaka (1985—4 ed., 1998); Lueiji, o nascimento dum império (1990); A geração da Utopia (1992—7th ed., 2004); Parábola do cágado velho (1996—5th ed., 2002); A montanha da água lilás (2000—3rd ed., 2002); A gloriosa familia (1997—4th ed., 2004); Jaime Bunda, agente secreto (2001—7th ed., 2005); and Jaime Bunda e a morte do americano (2003—3rd ed. 2005). All were published by Dom Quixote.


105. SANTOS, José Rodrigues dos. A filha do capitão, romance. 17th ed. Lisbon: Gradiva, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with d.j. 634 pp., 2 maps in text. ISBN: 972-662-994-2. $50.00

Novel, set in France during World War I, first published in November, 2004; 85,000 copies are said to have been printed. The author, born in Mozambique, 1964, has published four volumes of essays, and one previous work of fiction. A journalist, he began his career with Radio Macau in 1981, and worked for the BBC in London from 1987 to 1990. In 1990 he moved to RTP, and collaborated with CNN from 1993 to 2002. With a doctorate in Communication Sciences, Rodrigues dos Santos has taught at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has been awarded prizes in journalism twice by the Clube Português de Imprensa and three times by CNN.


106. SANTOS, José Rodrigues dos. O sétimo selo, romance. Lisbon: Gradiva, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with d.j. 502 pp. ISBN: 978-989-616-208-5. $65.00

Born in Mozambique, 1964, José Rodrigues dos Santos has published four volumes of essays, and four previous works of fiction, at least two of which were commercial blockbusters: eighty thousand copies are said to have been printed of his novel set in France during World War I, A filha do capitão, (2004; 17th ed., 2007). which makes the book a runaway bestseller by Portuguese standards. A subsequent novel, A fórmula de Deus has also been a runaway best seller (first published October 2006; the seventh edition appeared in December the same year; 80,000 copies were also said to have been printed).


107. SANTOS, José Manuel Figueiredo. Turismo agridoce: vivências de visão e divisão. Lisbon: Colibri, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 336 pp., (1 l. colophon). ISBN: 978-972-772-749-0. $35.00


108. SARAMAGO, José. O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis, romance. 17th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2007. Colecção O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 407 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0286-9. $32.00

First published 1984. Perhaps the single greatest work of genius by this Nobel Prize winning author, though one of his least accessible for the reader not steeped in Portuguese history, the geography of Portugal, the topography of Lisbon, Portuguese literature and the history of Portuguese literature.


109. SARAMAGO, José. Objecto quase, contos. 5th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 1999. Colecção O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 142 pp. ISBN: 972–21–0292–3. $22.00
First published 1984.