RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 66

April 2009

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


See also items 4, 13, 15, 16, 22, 38, 49, 68, 103, 105, 135, 142, 171, 180, 181, 184, 186, 187, 190, 198, 214, 239, 247, 248, 249, 250, 252 & 253.
145. ÁLVARES DO ORIENTE, Fernão. Lusitânia transformada. Introdução e actualização do texto de António Cirurgião. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1985. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. lxxxxii, 451 pp., (2 ll., 2 ll. advt., 1 l.). ISBN: none. $65.00
Lusitania transformada, a work of pastoral literature, is written in both prose and verse. The narrative centers on the peripatetic travels of the protagonist, Olívio, who is on a quest to find a locus amoenus, or place of ideal beauty and perfection. His travels lead him through Portugal’s territorial possessions and other places where there was a Portuguese presence, including Goa, Japan, China, southeast Asia, and Ethiopia. The text takes on the style of bucolic romance, a Hellenistic literary genre reinvigorated in the early sixteenth century with the publication of Sannazzaro’s Arcádia (1502-1504). Pastoralism’s sustained popularity, thanks to the Diana of Jorge de Montemôr, paved the way for this author, whose work can be classified as pastoral, but also incorporates mannerist, baroque, and "cavalieresco" elements, as can be said as well for some of the work of Cervantes and Lope de Vega. Alvarez do Oriente employs a variety of literary devices that enhance the narrative, such as word plays, rhymes structured in dactyls, labyrinths, and polyglot sonnets composed in Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. The book also includes 81 poems written in Italian meter. Lusitania transformada is divided into three books, which are then subdivided into prosas.
Alvarez do Oriente has been praised by critics for his fluid, imaginative writing style. But perhaps more importantly, this work is one of the earliest, after Camões’s Os Lusíadas (1572), to incorporate elements of early Portuguese encounters with Asia into a literary context. Alvarez do Oriente was a contemporary of Camões, and the two authors have much in common. There has been speculation that works attributed to Alvarez do Oriente are really by Camões, and vice versa. Alvarez do Oriente loosely follows the models provided by pastoral literature, but diverges from the Greco-Roman tradition in his replacement of a European Arcadia with a distinctively Asian one. Alvarez do Oriente endows the text with great botanical and anthropological detail, informed by his travels through North Africa, the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea, India, Indonesia, China, and Japan. Aside from its literary merit, Lusitania transformada provides stunning descriptions of the flora and fauna of South and East Asia, as well as the customs and style of dress of its inhabitants. There also appear references to political corruption in Goa as well as incisive critiques of Portuguese society. Lusitania Transformada is a work of epic proportions, incorporating themes of morality, love, patriotism, and religion.
The author was a native of Goa, perhaps born in 1540; he was still alive in 1600, but had died prior to the publication of this volume in 1607. In 1550 he was created "armado cavaleiro" by D. Pedro de Meneses, whom he served zealously in peace and war. As D. Pedro de Meneses was Captain of the city of Ceuta, it is plausible that Fernão Alvarez was there in his youth. In 1552 D. João III granted him the privileges of "cavaleiro" as recompense for services rendered, and toward the end of 1572 he participated, as a captain, in a naval expedition against the Mogores in India organized by the Viceroy D. António de Noronha. In 1577 he was considered by D. Sebastião as a "Cavaleiro fidalgo", and was allowed two voyages between China and the Island of Sunda. In 1578 he accompanied the King to North Africa, being taken prisoner at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir. In 1587 D. Filipe I (Filipe II of Spain) granted him another two voyages on account of services rendered, and in 1591 he held the post of Vedor da Fazenda in Ormuz. The last documentary evidence we have about Fernão Alvarez do Oriente is that on March 3, 1600, he was given the post of Escrivão do Galeão for a voyage to the Molucas, for two voyages, by virtue of twelve years service in India, military expeditions and defenses of forts against attacks by Moors. On one of these occasions he was wounded.
See Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 152, 153, 155; Forjaz de Sampaio, Historia da literatura portuguesa ilustrada, III, 110; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literature portuguesa (17th ed.), 398-403; Osvaldo Silvestre in Biblos vol. 1, 189-90; and the introductory material by António Cirurgião in his edition of the Lusitânia transformada (Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1985); as well as the same investigator's Fernão Álvares do Oriente: o homem e a obra (Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1976).


146. ANDRADE, Eugénio de, pseud. [i.e. José Fontinhas, 1923-2005]. À sombra da memória. Posfásio de Gonçalo M. Tavares. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, and Matosinhos: Câmara Municipal, 2008. Biblioteca "Obra de Eugénio de Andrade" 23. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 157 pp., (8 ll., 1 blank l.). ISBN: 978-989–552-396-2. $30.00
Second edition; first edition thus. The poet Eugénio de Andrade, born in Póvoa de Atalaia, concelho do Fundão, lived in Lisbon and Coimbra before settling in Porto, where he eventually created the Fundação Eugénio de Andrade. His poetry is most striking for the depth in his short poems. See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 34-5; Carlos Mendes de Sousa in Biblos, I, 264-71; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 253-6.


147. BRANDÃO, Fiama Hasse Pais. Em cada pedra um voo imóvel; O aquário; O retratado; Falar sobre o falado; Sob o olhar de Medeia. Edição e nota explicativa, Gastão Cruz. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2008. Obras de Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 4. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 350 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-37-1335-0. $40.00


148. CABRAL, Alcinda, and Mohammed Charef, eds. Portugal-Marrocos: diálogos culturais. Porto: Afrontamento, 2007. Colecção Textos, 57. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 232 pp., footnotes, chapter bibliographies, maps, plans, illus., tables and graphs in text. ISBN: 978-972-36-0908-0. $35.00
Essays on a wide variety of themes, historical, literary, sociological, anthropological, religious, as well as dealing with recent trends of immigration and racism. Of the 20 texts, 14 are in French and 6 are in Portuguese.


149. CARDOSO, Miguel Esteves. A Causa das coisas. 18th ed. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2009. Colecção Peninsulares, 9. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 355 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-37-0274-3. $35.00
These essays, which originally appeared in Expresso, were first published in book form in 1986. The author has produced several works of fiction, as well as plays, and a number of other books. He holds a doctorate [in Political Philosophy?] from the University of Manchester (1983).


150. CARVALHO, João Carlos [Firmino Andrede de], and Ana Alexandra [Seabra de] Carvalho. Ensaios & outros escritos. Lisbon: Colibri, and Faro: Centro de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários da Universidade do Algarve, 2008. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 200 pp., (1 l.), footnotes, bibliograhies ISBN: 978-972-772-857-2. $30.00
Of the fourteen texts, several are previously unpublished, while others were previously published, but several in rather obscure scholarly journals, or on the internet. Topics include Camões and Fernão Mendes Pinto, Jean-Baptiste Chassignet, Prévost, Crébillon, Mallarmé by way of Claude Abastado, French, Spanish and Portuguese ideas in the construction of a common European house, the Algarve and foreigners, literature as metaphor, and more. Three of the essays are in French (all by Ana Alexandra Carvalho); the rest are in Portuguese. Six of the essays are solely written by João Carlos Carvalho, seven are written solely by Ana Alexandra Carvalho, while one was written jointly.


151. CICERO, Antonio. O mundo desde o fim: sobre o conceito de modernidade. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2009. Biblioteca Espaço do Invisível. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 184 pp., (4 ll.), footnotes. ISBN: 978-989-552-332-0. $35.00
The author's book of poems, Guardar, poemas escolhidos, was awarded the Prémio Nestlé de Literatura when first published in Rio de Janeiro, 1996; it was published in Portugal by Quasi in 2002. Poet and essayist, Antonio Cicero was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1945. He published a philosophical study, O mundo desde o fim (1995), and organized, together with the poet Waly Salomão, a selection of essays, O relativismo enquanto visão do mundo (1994). He has also written song lyrics.


152. DUARTE, Gonçalo. O trágico em Graciliano Ramos e em Carlos de Oliveira. (Uma análise apoiada pelos romances São Bernardo e Casa na Duna). Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2008. Colecção Fronteiras da Literatura. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 231 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-8827-50-2. $35.00


153. DUARTE, João Ferreira, ed. A cultura entre tradução e etnografia [Talal Asad, Michaela Wolf, Kate Sturge, entre outros]. Lisbon: Vega, 2008. Colecção Vega Universidade. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 201 pp., (2 ll.), footnotes, diagram in text. ISBN: 978-972-699-885-3. $35.00


154. EÇA DE QUEIRÓS, José Maria. Correspondência: leitura, coordenação, prefácio e notas de Guliherme de Castilho. 2 volumes. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1983. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 640 pp., (3 ll. adv., 1 l.); 622 pp., (3 ll., 3 ll. adv., 1 l.). ISBN: none. 2 volumes. $95.00
Out-of-print. We have one set in stock.


155. ESPANCA, Florbela. Perdidamente: correspondência amorosa, 1920-1925. Fixação do texto, organização, apresentação e notas de Maria Lúcia Dal Farra. Preface by Inês Pedrosa. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, and Matosinhos: Câmara Municipal, 2008. Biblioteca Primeiras Pessoas. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 307 pp., (2 ll.), + 24 ll. "Caderno de Manuscritos" with 23 pp. of facsimiles from the letters, ISBN: 978-989–552-325-2. $45.00
Florbela de Alma da Conceição Espanca (1894-1930) was described by Bell as "unquestionably one of the greatest if not the greatest Portuguese poetess of all time. Her sonnets are poignant outpourings of her emotional life, and display her accomplished art as a sonneteer." For Saraiva and Lopes she is "uma das mais notáveis personalidades líricas isoladas, pela intensidade de um transcendido erotismo feminino, sem precedentes entre nós." She published her first book of poetry (Livro de Mágoas) in 1919, and her second (Livro de Soror Saüdade) in 1923. By 1974 her Sonetos completos had gone through 14 editions. See also Cecília Barreira in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 177-8; José Carlos Seabra Pereira, in Biblos, II, 378-82; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 472-5.


156. GUIMARÃES, Fernando [de Oliveira]. A poesia contemporânea portuguesa: do final dos anos 50 ao ano 2000. 3rd ed., revised and augmented. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2008. Biblioteca Espaço do Invisível. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 144 pp., (6 ll., 2 blank ll.), index of authors. ISBN: 978-989-552-400-6. $35.00
First published 1989, and again in 2002 with the title A poesia contemporânea portuguesa: do final dos anos 50 aos anos 90. 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.


157. LOURO, João. Toda a nudez será castigada. Marta Azenha and Pedro Gomes, illus. Lisbon: Artemágica Editores, 2009. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 84 pp., (2 ll.), illus. ISBN: 978-989-605-053-5. $30.00


158. MATOS, A. Campos. Eça de Queiroz—Ramalho Ortigão: retrato da "Ramalhal figura". Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2009. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 111 pp., illus., bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-24-1624-5. $30.00


159. MÓNICA, Maria Filomena [Carvalho Godinho da]. Nós, os portugueses. 3rd ed. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2008. Biblioteca Primeiras Pessoas. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 130 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 978-989–552-393-1. $30.00
Essays by this astute and interesting writer, first published in September 2008. This third edition appeared in February 2009. The wide variety of topics includes Eça de Queiroz in England, the globalization of football, reading Homer, terror in Heathrow, in search of Cesário Verde, Alzheimer's, the Biblioteca Nacional is falling, Salazar and the "Grandes Portugueses", and much more.


160. PACHECO, Helder. Porto, cultura em movimento: painéis temáticos das retaguardas dos autocarros da STCP (1998-2002). Apresentação by Fernanda Meneses. Porto: Afrontamento / STCP, 2008. Colecção Álbuns, 104. Lge. 4° (26.9 x 24.7 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 159, (1) pp., (2 ll.), bibliography, profuse with lovely color illus. ISBN: 978-972-36-0998-1. $50.00
Use of the backs of buses for posters heralding literary and historical figures, artists, philosophers, museums, etc. Each entry contains a brief essay about its subject, such as Passos Manuel, the Duque da Ribeira, Gonçalves Zarco, Camilo Castelo Branco, António Carneiro, António Nobre, Agostinho da Silva, Sá da Bandeira, João Bernardes, Almeida Garrett, Aurélia de Souza, Emílio Biel, Silva Porto, Abel Salazar, Dordio Gomes, the Museu Serralves, Palácio de Cristal, etc.


161. PACHECO, Helder. Ver o Porto: 25 anos de escrita sobre a cidade. Preface by Miguel Veiga. Porto: Afrontamento, 2008. Colecção Álbuns, 98. Very lge. 4° (28.8 x 28.55 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 216 pp., (4 ll.), profuse with lovely color photographs. ISBN: 978-972-36-0977-6. $90.00


162. PADILHA, Laura Cavalcante, and Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, eds. Lendo Angola. Porto: Afrontamento, 2008. Colecção Textos, 61. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 199 pp., footnotes, bibliographies. ISBN: 978-972-36-0957-8. $30.00
Among the authors of the 13 essays are Boaventura Cardoso, Manuel Rui Monteiro, Ana Paula Tavares, Ondjaki, Luis Kandjimbo, Pires Laranjeira, Roberto Vecchi, the editors, and others.


163. RAMALHO, Maria Irene. Poetas do Atlântico: Fernando Pessoa e o modernismo anglo-americano. Preface by Harold Bloom. Porto: Afrontamento, 2007. Colecção Textos, 62. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 327 pp., extensive footnotes, ample bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-36-0961-5. $40.00


164. REBELO, Marco Alexandre. O espaço sem volta: do spleen de Baudelaire aos passos de Herberto Helder. Lisbon: Vendaval, 2008. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 103, (1) pp., illus., footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-8984-07-6. $30.00


165. REYNAUD, Maria João, Etelvina Pires Lopes Nunes, Arnaldo de Pinho, et al. Fernando Echevarría nos 50 anos de vida literária. Porto: Afrontamento / Universidade Católica Portuguesea do Porto / Fundação Dr. Luís Araújo, 2007. Colecção Poesia e Transcendência, 01. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 85 pp., (1 l.), footnotes. ISBN: 978-972-36-0891-5. $20.00
In addition to the authors mentioned above, there are texts by Fernando Guimarães, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Diogo Alcoforado, and others. Fernando [Ferreira] Echevarría has lived in Spain, Portugal, France and Algeria (arriving in Portugal from Spain at age two; returning to Spain to study, returning to Portugal in 1953, then going into exile in 1961). He has produced several prize-winning poetical works: Figuras (1987), was awarded the Prémio Inasset/Poesia; Sobre os mortos (1991), won the Grande Prémio de Poesia, APE. He has published at least 18 previous volumes of poetry, beginning in 1956, and also received the Prémio de Poesia do Pen Club for Introdução à filosofia (1981). See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 174; Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos, II, 221-3; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 661-2.


166. RIBEIRO, Margarida Calafate, and Maria Paula Meneses, eds. Moçambique: das palavras escritas. Porto: Afrontamento, 2008. Colecção Textos, 63. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 243 pp., footnotes, bibliographies. ISBN: 978-972-36-0970-7. $35.00
Among the authors of the 15 essays are Fátima Mendonça, Francisco Noa, Ana Mafalda Leite, Phillip Rothwell, David Brookshaw, Hilary Owen, Luís Carlos Patraquim, Nelson Saúte, João Paulo Borges Coelho, and others.


167. SANTOS, Laura Ferreira dos. Diário de uma mulher Católica a caminho da descrença - I. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. Política dos Autores, 11. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 110 pp., (1 l. colophon). ISBN: 978-972-8115-79-1. $25.00


168. SANTOS, Laura Ferreira dos. Diário de uma mulher Católica a caminho da descrença - II. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2008. Política dos Autores. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 201 pp., (1 l. colophon). ISBN: 978-972-8827-42-7. $30.00


169. TRINDADE, Luís. O estranho caso do nacionalismo português: o salazarismo entre a literatura e a política. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais / Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, 2008. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 349 pp. ISBN: 978-972-671-222-0. $45.00


170. VIANA, António Manuel Couto, and Maurício Abreu. Terras da Beira na literatura portuguesa. Lisbon: INAPA, 1991. Folio (32.5 x 25.3 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. 144 pp., profusely illus. with exquisite color photographs. ISBN: 972–9019–43–6. $95.00
Lovely anthology, with introduction and selection of texts by Couto Viana; photography by Abreu.


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