RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 64

November 2008

PART XVII:
Literature, Literary History, Criticism,
Essays, Correspondence


See also items 2, 26, 29, 30, 53, 62, 63, 76, 109, 143, 145, 152, 160, 164, 165, 169, 171, 175, 180, 181, 182, 194, 195, 211, 217, 218, 220, 221, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235 & 236.
122. ANES, Ana. 7 Anos de mau sexo. Mónica Catalá, illus. Preface by João Pereira Coutinho. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2008. Colecção Pecado Original. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 156 pp., illus., printed in red and black throughout. ISBN: 978-989-8014-84-9. $30.00
The author was born in Lisbon, 1973. She has contributed to the reviews Gente jovem, Revista da maçonaria, Maxmen, and Focus, as well as the newspapers Expresso, Correio da Manhã, and O Independente. Ana Anes was cronista for O Independente in its supplement 100%.


123. BASTO, Maria Benedita. A guerra das escritas: literatura, nação e teoria pós colonial em Moçambique. “Agradecimentos” by Maria-Benedita Basto. Lisbon: Vendaval, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 318 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 978-972-8984-03-8. $45.00


124. BRITO, Casimiro [Cavaco Correia] de. Fragmentos de Babel, seguido de Arte Poética Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2007. Biblioteca “Espaço do Invisível”. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 103 pp., (4 ll.). ISBN: 978-989–552-241-5. $36.00
Casimiro de Brito, born in Loulé in 1938, has had over twenty books published, including much poetry and a significant amount of fiction. He has won several prizes for his poetry. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 83-4.


125. CASTRO, Aníbal Pinto de. Camões, poeta pelo mundo em pedaços repartido. Lisbon: Instituto Camões, 2003. 16°, orig. prtd. wrps. 47, (1) pp., 8 full page illus. (7 in color). ISBN: 972-566-242-3. $15.00


126. DIAS, Joaquim Cardoso, ed. Dez cartas para Al Berto. Dez cartas de Al Berto. Preface by Joaquim Cardoso Dias. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2007. Biblioteca Primeiras Pessoas. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 111 pp., (3 ll.), facsimiles of letters in text. ISBN: 978-989-552-286-6. $28.00
Letters by Al Berto (pseudonym of Alberto Raposo Pidiwell Tavares, 1948–1997), to Alexandre Nave, Fernando Pinto do Amaral, Frincisco José Viegas, José Agostinho Baptista, José Luís Peixoto, Luís Quintais, Nuno Artur Silva, Nuno Júdice, Tiago Torres da Silva, and Vasco Graça Moura, accompanied by letters from these same ten authors responding to Al Berto’s letters to them.


127. EIRAS, Pedro. A lenta volúpia de cair: ensaios sobre poesia. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2007. Biblioteca “Espaço do Invisível”. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 246 pp., (1 l.), bibliofilmowebgrafia [sic]. ISBN: 978-989–552-249-1. $35.00
Born Porto, 1975, the author was Professor of Literature at the Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade do Porto at the time this volume appeared. His collection of essays Esquecer Fausto (2005) was awarded the Prémio PEN Clube Português de Ensaio. He has published at least four plays, and two novels; his essays have appeared in literary reviews such as Relâmpago, Ciberkiosk, Jornal de Letras, A phala, and Século de ouro. Various theatrical pieces by him have been performed in Porto, Coimbra, Bratislava, Nice and Solonica.


128. GUIMARÃES, Fernando [de Oliveira]. A obra de arte e o seu mundo. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2007. Biblioteca “Espaço do Invisível”. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 102 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-552-214-9. $28.00
Poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator, born in Porto in 1928, Fernando Guimarães has published at least seventeen volumes of poetry, and thirteen volumes of essays. He has edited at least five volumes, including poetry, fiction, and essays, and has translated poems of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hugo von Hofmannstal, Dylan Thomas, and Elaine Feinstein. He has been most active both as an editor and as a contributor to literary reviews. See José Augusto Seabra in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 234-5; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 591-2; and Celina Silva in Biblos, II, 931-2.


129. [JESUITS, Letters from Missions]. Cartas dos Jesuítas do Oriente e do Brasil, 1549–1551. Edição fac–similada. Apresentação de José Manuel Garcia. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 1993. Edições Facsimiladas, 21. Sm. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 27 pp., (8, 16, 14, 26 ll.). ISBN: 972-565-137-5. $35.00
Facsimiles from various rare editions, including the first text about Japan printed in Europe.


130. LEONE, Carlos. O essencial sobre António Sérgio. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2008. Colecção Essencial, 106. 16°, orig. prtd. wrps. 99 pp.,(1 l. advt., 1 l.), brief bibliography. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1690-1. $15.00


131. LEONE, Carlos. O essencial sobre crítica literária portuguesa (até 1940). Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2008. Colecção Essencial, 108. 16°, orig. prtd. wrps. 85 pp., (4 ll. advt., 1 l.), brief bibliography. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1687-1. $15.00


132. LEONE, Carlos, Arlindo Vicente, Maria Aliete Galhoz, et al. Adolfo Casais Monteiro: uma outra Presença. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2008. Colecção Catálogos. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 302 pp., color illus., bibliography, index of names. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-565-434-x. $35.00
In addition to the authors mentioned above, there are texts by Eduardo Lourenço (an essay and two letters to Monteiro), Carlos Carneiro, Maria Teresa Arsénio Nunes, Cícero Dias, and Adolfo Casais Monteiro.


133. LISBOA, Maria Manuel. Uma mãe desconhecida: amor e perdição em Eça de Queirós. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2008. Temas Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 219 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l.), ample footnotes and bibliography, index of names. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1646-8. $45.00


134. MARTINS, Albano. A letra e as tintas. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2006. Biblioteca “Espaço do Invisível”. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 103 pp., (4 ll.), footnotes. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 989–552-200-2. $28.00
Essays on José Régio, Júlio, Alberto de Serpa, Raul de Carvalho, the second edition of Província by Luísa Dacosta, Rosalía de Castro, Cecília Meireles, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Portuguese poets in relation to contemporary Spanish poetry. On the poet, translator (of, among others, Sappho, Neruda and Leopardi), and university professor Albano [Dias] Martins (b. 1930), author of more than 30 books, mostly poetry, see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 297; Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos, III, 497-8; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 750-2.


135. MATOS, A. Campos. A guerrilha literária: Eça de Queiroz, Camilo Castelo Branco. Lisbon: Parceria A.M. Pereira, 2008. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 150 pp., much illus., brief bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-8645-60-1. $40.00


136. MOLDER, Maria Filomena. O absoluto que pertence à terra. Lisbon: Vendaval, 2005. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 187 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l. colophon). ISBN: 972-99185-9-7. $35.00


137. NEVES, Margarida Braga, and Maria Isabel Rocheta, eds. O domínio do instável a Jacinto do Prado Coelho. Porto: Caixotim Edições, 2008. Colecção “Caixotim Ensaio-Perfis”. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 372 pp., (2 ll.), chapter endnotes. ISBN: 978-989-8651-23-8. $40.00
Texts by Jacinto Prado Coelho, Maria de Lourdes Ferraz, Ernesto Rodrigues, Maria Alzira Seixo, Ivo Castro, Fernando Martinho, Annabela Rita, Maria Lúcia Lepecki, and others.


138. PITTA, Eduardo. Intriga em família. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2007. Biblioteca “Espaço do Invisível”. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 286 pp., (8 ll.). ISBN: 978-989–552-257-6. $38.00
The present collection contains extracts from the author’s “blogue” on literature, cinema, cartoons, politics, etc. Poet and literary critic, Eduardo Pitta was born in Lourenço Marques, 1949, living in Moçambique until 1975. He has published eight volumes of poetry, in addition to having collaborated in various newspapers and reviews, such as Colóquio-Letras of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Ler, of the Círculo de Leitores, DNA, the supplement to the Diário de Notícias, and the online newspaper Ciberkiosk. Recently he has published Fractura: a condição homossexual na literatura portuguesa contemporânea (2003), and Metal fundente (2004), which includes essays on Al Berto, W.H. Auden, Ruy Belo, William S. Burroughs, Gottfried Benn, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, Mário Cesariny, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, “Kavafis & Pessoa,” Gomes Leal, Luís Miguel Nava, Cesare Pavese, Arthur Rimbaud, Dylan Thomas, François Villon, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, William Carlos Williams, “Virginia Woolf e os bloomsberries,” and W.B. Yeats.


139. QUIROGA, Carlos. Venezianas. Preface by Mônica Sant’Anna. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2007. Biblioteca Trabalhos do Olhar. Oblong 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 127 pp., (1 l.), illus. with numerous excellent photographs, printed in purple throughout. ISBN: 978-989-552-202-6. $38.00
The author, a professor at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, has published a prize-winning doctoral thesis on Fernando Pessoa, and has written much on literary history and criticism. He has also published a volume of poems, g.o.n.g. (1999), a narrative Periferias (1999: Awarded the Prémio Carvalho Calero), and a play, O castelo da lagoa, awarded the Mostra de Teatro infantil de Ferro-terra, 1988. He founded and directed the Galego review O mono da tinta (1987-1991), and has served as editor of Agália.


140. RÉGIO, José, pseud. [i.e. José Maria dos Reis Pereira, 1901-1969]. Correspondência com Álvaro Ribeiro. Nota de apresentação de Joaquim Domingues. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2008. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. José Régio, Obra Completa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 179 pp., (1 l.), footnotes, table in text. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1682-6. $40.00


141. SANTOS, António Costa. O livro das inutilidades. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 225, (3) pp., illus. ISBN: 978-989-8014-63-4. $35.00
First published June 2007; this second edition appeared in November. This book is a compendium of “useless” facts on just about every subject under the sun, from beverages (water to wine) to animals (marsupials to bees), love and sex, arms and war, art, automobiles and transport, botany and plants, marriage, cinema, colors, sport, etc., etc., etc.


142. SCHMIDT, Luísa, and João de Pina Cabral, eds. Ciência e cidadania: homenagem a Bento de Jesus Caraça. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais / Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, 2008. 8°, publ. cloth with d.j. 261 pp., illus., footnotes, bibliographies, tables and graphs in text. ISBN: 978-972-671-218-3. $45.00
On the teacher, mathematician and essayist Bento de Jesus Caraça, one of the most inflluential figures in Portuguese culture during the 1930s and 1940s, see Alberto Vilaça, Bento de Jesus Caraça: militante integral do ser humano (2000); also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 84-6. The present volume contains an essay “Ciência e sociedade–ciência e cidadania, by the editors (pp. 19-30). There is also a rather thorough bibliography of Bento de Jesus Caraça’s writings by Alberto Pedroso (pp. 59-80). Part II contains essays in honor of Bento de Jesus Caraça by Luísa Schmidt, Viriato Soromenho-Marques, Ruy de Carvalho, Fernando Gil, and others.



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