RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 65
February
2009
PART
XX:
Fiction
See also
item 68.
118.
ALMEIDA, José António. A vida de
Horácio, prosa. Lisbon:
&etc., 2008. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 96 pp., (2
ll.). ISBN: 978-989-8150-08-0. $28.00
The author has
written three previous books. The first,
António Nogueira, was
self-published in 1984. A small book of poems,
O rei de
Sodoma e algumas palavras em sua
homenagem, was published
by Presença in 1993. A mãe de
todas as histórias was published
by Averno earlier in 2008.
119.
ANTUNES, Ricardo. Onde está o
branco em ti? Alfragide:
Quinta Essência, 2008. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 171 pp.,
(1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-8228-03-1. $30.00
The author was
born in Sintra, 1978.
120.
BAPTISTA-BASTOS [Armando]. O cavalo a
tinta-da-China, seguido de Baptista-Bastos: o vidro e a
cicatriz, por Eduardo Prado Coelho.
6th
ed. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2008. Colecção Romance. Lge.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 295 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-410-2.
$35.00
First Oficina
do Livro edition; we think this is the 6th edition overall,
and the first to contain the afterward by Eduardo Prado
Coelho (pp. 289-93). First published 1995, this novel
paints a bitter picture of Salazarism and Portugal.
Baptista-Bastos has published ten volumes of fiction, the
first nine of which have had multiple editions. His
A colina de
cristal (1987; 4 eds.),
was awarded the Prémio Pen Club as well as the Prémio
Cidade de Lisboa. He has also published at least four
volumes of essays, and eight of journalism (interviews
which appeared in the press, etc.).
121.
CARVALHO, Sérgio Luís de. O retábulo
de Genebra. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2008. Colecção Campo da Literatura, 166. Lge.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 365 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN:
978-989-625-327-1. $45.00
Historical
novel which centers on the struggle between Catholics and
Protestants in Geneva in 1535. It also ranges from
Switzerland to Germany, to France, to Flanders and Portugal
in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
122.
CHIOTE, Eduarda. Não é
precisar gritar. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2008. Colecção Campo da Literatura, 164. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 223 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-989-625-323-3. $35.00
A native of
Bragança, the author's first book of poetry,
Esquemas,
was published in 1975. In 1983 she published a volume of
fiction and another of poetry. Since then she has published
five more books, including the books of poems
Não me
morras (2004)
and O meu lugar
à mesa (2006), which
was awarded the Prémio Teixeira de Pascoaes.
123.
CORREIA, Hélia. Contos.
Lisbon: Relógio
d'Água, 2008. Number 13 in an unnamed collection. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 110 pp., (2 ll., 1 l. advt.). ISBN:
978-989-641-059-9. $30.00
On Hélia
Correia (b. Lisbon, 1949), see Maria de Lourdes Netto
Simões in Machado, ed., Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 140-1.
124.
COSTA, Joel. Aquela
madrugada no Ritz. 4th ed. Preface
by Rui de Azevedo Teixeira. Lisbon: Casa das Letras, 2008.
Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 310 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN:
978-972-46-1848-7. $38.00
This novel
about Portugal's colonial wars was first published 1982.
The preface (pp. 9-12), is dated September 2008, and is
presumably new to the present edition. The author's
O assassino
de Salazar was first
published October 2007; a second edition appeared later the
same month. His Balada para
Sérgio Varella Cid was published
in 2006. His comedy Isto é a
gente a falar was performed
in 2003 by the theater group Intervalo.
125.
COSTA, Maria Velho da. Myra,
romance. Ilda David',
illus. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2008. Colecção A Phala,
34. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 221 pp., (1 l.), 8 color plates.
ISBN: 978-972–37–1369-5. $35.00
One of the most
important names in contemporary Portuguese literature, the
author was born in Lisbon, 1938. One of the "Three Marias"
who jointly wrote that milestone of Portuguese feminist
literature, Novas
cartas portuguesas (1972; 7th ed.
1998), a number of her books have been awarded important
literary prizes, and her work as a whole was recognized by
the Prémio Virgílio Ferreira in 1997. The author's
novel Casas
pardas, first
published 1977, was awarded the Prémio Cidade de Lisboa. On
Maria [de Fátima Bívar] Velho da Costa, see Maria Nazaré
Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 151-3;
also Dicionário
crononológico de autores
portugueses,
VI, 492-4; and M. Helena Ribeiro da Cunha, in
Biblos,
I, 1337-8.
126.
COUTO, Mia. Venenos de
Deus, remédios do Diabo: as incuráveis vidas de Vila
Cacimba. 3rd ed. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2008. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de
Língua Portuguesa, 75. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 188 pp. ISBN:
978-972-21-1987-0. $38.00
First published
earlier the same year. A total of 35,000 copies are said to
have been sold! Born in Beira, Moçambique, 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; a second, Estórias
abensonhadas, followed in
1994 (5th ed., 2000). A Varanda
do Frangipani (1996, 5th ed.,
2000), has achieved both critical and commercial success.
He has published several collections of short stories, at
least one of which—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. The Prémio Vergílio Ferreira
was awarded to Mia Couto in 1999 for his work as a whole.
127.
CRÉBILLON, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de (1707-1777).
O
Silfo. Tradução e
introdução de Ana Alexandra Seabra de Carvalho. Lisbon:
Colibri, and Faro: Centro de Estudos Linguísticos e
Literários da Universidade do Algarve, 2008. Lge. 8°, orig.
prtd. wrps. 101 pp., (1 l.), footnotes, bibliography. ISBN:
978-972-772-824-4. $20.00
Apparently the
first edition in Portuguese of this popular and influential
work, initially published Paris 1730, which is said to have
inspired Stendhal, Balzac and Proust. The translator
provides an original introductory text (pp. 7-50).
128.
CRUZ, Mafalda Ivo. O
cozinheiro alemão. Lisbon: Relógio
d'Água, 2008. Colecção Ficção Portuguesa, 85. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 215 pp., (1 l., 1 l. advt.). ISBN:
978-989-641-057-5. $35.00
The author,
from a family of prominent musicians, has published six
previous novels, which were well received by critics. They
were Um requiem
português (1995),
A casa do
diabo (2000),
O rapaz de
Botticelli (2002, awarded
the Prémio de Ficção do Pen Clube), Vermelho
(2003, awarded
the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela da APE for
2004), Emma
(2004),
and Oz
(2006). She has
written for the newspaper Público.
129.
MARQUES, João Lopes. Terra
Java. Lisbon: Oficina
do Livro, 2008. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 269 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-399-0. $35.00
Manel and Cindy
realize their dream of a honeymoon in Australia. On a visit
to Point Hicks, Manel discovers a Portuguese name—his own,
and embarks on a mission to prove the priority of the
Portuguese discovery of Australia over that of Captain
Cook, encouraged by his new girlfriend Ming, an Australian
of Chinese descent living in Melbourne, and the leaders of
the Portuguese neighborhood of Sidney. This is the author's
second novel. His first, O homem que
queria ser Lindbergh, appeared in
2007, also published by Oficina do Livro.
130.
McSHADE, Dennis, pseud., [i.e. Dinis Machado].
Requiem
para D. Quixote. Lisbon: Assirio
& Alvim, 2008. Colecção A Phala, 35. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 175, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-972–37–1384-8. $30.00
First published
in Amadora: Ibis, 1967, then Lisbon: Circulo de Leitores,
1987. The author has had published at least three previous
books under his own name, as well as three detective novels
(or novellas) under the pseudonym Dennis McShade.
131.
MESQUITA, Raul. O pai e os
outros: uma pequena história de doidos.
Lisbon:
Colibri, 2008. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 113
pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-772-828-2. $30.00
The author has
published works on psychology and philosophy, including
a Dicionário
crítico de filosofia, as well as a
didactic work on the Maxims
and
Moral
Reflections of La
Rochefoucauld. His novel Estoril,
1959 (2007), set in Estoril and Monte Estoril during the
summer of 1959, was published by the Imprensa Nacional. He
has lived in Belgium and England. This novella appears to
be his second work of fiction.
132.
PEREIRA, Ana Teresa. O Verão
selvagem dos teus olhos. Lisbon: Relógio
d'Água, 2008. Colecção Ficção Portuguesa, 84. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 129 pp., (2 ll., 2 ll. advt.). ISBN:
978-989-641-051-3. $30.00
The author of
this novella, dedicated to Daphne du Maurier and featuring
the character Rebecca, has published ca. 30 books since
1989. Her first, Matar a
imagem, was awarded
the Prémio Caminho de Literatura Policial, 1989.
133.
PESSOA, Fernando. Vicente Guedes, pseud. Bernardo Soares,
pseud. Livro do
desassossego. Teresa Sobral
Cunha, ed. Lisbon: Relógio d'Água, 2008. Clássicos
Portugueses. Letra Pessoana. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
655 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-708-954-3. $65.00
An edition of
the Livro do
desassossego, edited by
Teresa Sobral Cunha, was published in two volumes by
Editorial Presença, Lisbon, 1991-1992. An improved version
of the first volume was published by Relógio d'Água, 1997,
in the present collection. Now we have the entire text,
with augmented critical apparatus, in a single volume.
134.
PESSOA, Fernando. Alexander Search, pseud.
Um jantar
muito original, seguido de A porta.
Tradução,
recolha de textos e posfácio de Maria Leonor Machado de
Sousa. Lisbon: Relógio d'Água, 2008. Colecção Crime
Imperfeito, 5. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 52 pp., (3 ll.,
1 l. advt.). ISBN: 978-989-641-014-8. $22.00
These pieces of
short fiction were originally published thus by Rélogio
d'Água, 1988. They were written in English in 1907, but
appear never to have been published in English.
135.
PIRES, Luís Costa. Ao teu
lado. Lisbon: Vega,
2008. Colecção O Chão da Palavra—Nova Série. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 114 pp. ISBN: 978-972-699-904-1. $30.00
136.
RIBEIRO, Bernardim (between 1482 and 1490?-1536?).
Menina e
moça, ou saudades. Juan M.
Carrasco González, ed. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2008.
Biblioteca Lusitana. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 376 pp., (1
blank l., 1 l. colophon), heavily annotated, bibliography,
glossary. ISBN: 978-972-8827-46-5. $38.00
The editor
provides valuable introductory material (pp. 11-87), as
well as critical apparatus. On Bernardim Ribeiro and this
classic work see Bell, Portuguese
literature, pp.
132-7, et
passim; Saraiva &
Lopes, Historia da
literatura portuguesa (16th ed.), pp.
229-46, et
passim; Helder Macedo
in Machado, ed., Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 417-9;
and José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes in Biblos,
IV, 781-7.
137.
SALGUEIRO, Francisco. Amei-te em
Copacabana. Lisbon: Oficina
do Livro, 2008. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 354 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-398-3. $38.00
The author,
born in Lisbon, 1972, wrote three humorous novels, as well
as a fourth book, a somewhat more serious romantic novel.
This fifth novel appears to be in the same vein as the
fourth.
138.
SOUSA, Fernando [Salgueiro] de Sombras do
tempo, prosas e poesias. Preface by
Manuel Ferreira Patrício. Lisbon: Colibri, 2008. Tribuna
Livre. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 163 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-972-772-818-3. $30.00
The author was
born in Anobra, Condeixa, in the district of Coimbra, 1950.
At the time this volume appeared, he was contributing to
the cultural review Plátano
in
Portalegre.
139.
ZINK, Rui. O destino
turístico. Lisbon:
Teorema, 2008. Colecção Outras Estórias. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 223 pp. ISBN: 978-972-695-774-4. $35.00
The author of
this short novel or long novella has written fiction,
essays, plays, and children's books. His books have
appeared in German, Hebrew, and English, and he has been
published in Brazil. He has also worked as a translator,
most notably of the work of Saul Bellow. In addition to the
present volume, among his best known and most successful
works are the novels Hotel
Lusitano (1987; 4th ed.,
1997), Apocalipse
nau (1996; 9th ed.,
2000), and Dádiva
divina (2004), two
volumes of short stories, A realidade
agora a cores (1988; 3rd ed.,
1998) and Homens-aranhas
(1994), and the
novella A
espera (1998). Zink is
also the author of Os
surfistas (2001; 2nd ed.,
2001), said to be the first Portuguese e-book.
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