RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 67
November
2009
PART
XXI:
Fiction
See also
items 11, 207, 215, 242, 243, 264, 296, 363, 364, 377 &
388.
297.
ACÁCIO, Manuel. A balada do
ultramar. Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2009. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 221 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-441-6. $32.00
This brief
novel or long novella, set in Angola in the 1950s, is
described as the author's first "romance". The author, a
journalist born in Évora, 1964, previously published two
books of reporting, Timor: os
peregrinos da liberdade (2003), with
prefaces by Xanana Gusmão and José Ramos-Horta, and
A última
bala é a minha vitória (2006).
298.
AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. Barroco
tropical, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon:
Dom Quixote, 2009. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. Lge. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 342 pp. ISBN: 978-972-20-3822-5. $50.00
Said to first
have been published in June 2009, this second edition is
said to have appeared the same month. In José Eduardo
Agulusa's latest novel, a woman falls from the sky during a
tropical storm. The only witnesses are Bartolomeu Falcato,
writer and "cineasta", and his lover, Kianda, singer with
international renown. This and more takes place in the
ruins of Luanda, in the year 2020. The author's
novel As mulheres
do meu pai, was first
published in 2007. In it Faustino Manso, the famous Angolan
composer, dies leaving seven widows with eighteen children.
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.
299.
ALFACE, pseud. [i.e., João Alfacinha da Silva, b.
Montemor–o–Novo, 1949]. A mais nova
profissão do mundo. Lisbon: Fenda,
2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 190 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN:
989-603-024-3. $38.00
Very short
fiction, essays, and a few poems. The author was a
journalist who also wrote for radio, newspapers, reviews
and television. He adapted works for the theater, and
worked as a publicist and translator. He wrote three novels
(the "Tuga" trilogy) with Manuel da Silva Ramos. On his own
he wrote five juvenile works of fiction in the
series Uma familia
sem mestre, two
collections of short stories, and a novel.
300.
ANTUNES, António Lobo. Fado
alexandrino. 11th ed.
Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2007. Obra Completa. Edição ne
varietur. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 715 pp. ISBN:
978-972-20-3121-9. $50.00
First published
1983. Second novel in the tetralogy with
Explicação dos pásaros (1981),
Auto dos
danados (1985),
and As
naus. The physician
Lobo Antunes, born Lisbon, 1942, is considered by some to
be Portugal's greatest living writer of fiction. See Maria
Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed.,
Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 38-40.
301.
ARAÚJO, Rui. Os
náufragos do amor. Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2009. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 188 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-436-2. $40.00
The author is
said to have been the first Portuguese journalist to enter
Timor after it was invaded. He worked for CBS news on
Irangate in 1987, and has collaborated with
Expresso,
O
Jornal, and the
review Grande
reportagem, of which he
was a co-founder. Awarded nine prizes for journalism, he
has written a book about Timor, and two detective novels
(or novellas), as well as two other books.
302.
BARROQUEIRO, Deana. A pedra do
anel. Pêro da Covilhã – III. Lídia Lobo,
illus. Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2003. Colecção Cruzeiro do
Sul. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 207 pp., illustrations, map,
footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-24-1267-4 [as per
outside rear cover; or 978-972-24-1267-1, as per verso of
title page]. $28.00
The third
installment in a series of novels written about one of the
greatest European spies of the 15th and 16th centuries. The
publisher's description of the novel reads, "Em
A Pedra do
Anel, Pêro de
Covilhã prossegue nas suas andanças e navegações, através
de mundos até então desconhecidos no Ocidente, em busca do
Reino do Preste João que toda a Cristandade procurava hea
mais de duzentos anos. Este espião e aventureiro português
do século XV, ajudado por um pequeno grupo de amigos e
aliados, empreende uma peregrinacão que, em perigos,
desafios e mistérios, nada fica a dever à do herói Aragorn,
de O Senhor de Anéis, na saga de Tolkien." The protagonist
is described as a contradictory hero, a blend of greatness,
though often falls weak into the faults of human nature. He
pays a high price of sacrifice and suffering in order to
successfully complete his mission and earn the glory he so
longs for.
303.
BARROQUEIRO, Deana. O
monomotapa. Pêro da Covilhã – IV. Lídia Lobo,
illus. Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2003. Colecção Cruzeiro do
Sul. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 207 pp., illustrations, map,
footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-24-1287-2[as per
outside rear cover; or 978-972-24-1267-6, as per verso of
title page]. $28.00
The fourth
installment in a series of novels written about one of the
greatest European spies of the 15th and 16th centuries. The
publisher's description of the novel reads, "Em
O
Monomotapa, o Escudeiro
de D. João II encontra-se na Costa Oriental de África e é o
primeiro homem branco do Ocidente a conhecer o Zimbabwe, a
misteriosa Cidade de Pedra. Sujeito à maldição do talismã
do feiticeiro Sing, vai salvar o príncipe do Monomotapa e
descobrir as Minas de Salomão ou da rainha de Sabá, três
séculos antes do famoso e fictício herói, Allan Quatermain,
de Sir Henry Rider Haggard."
304.
BARROS, José Carlos. O prazer e
o tédio. Preface by
Francisco José Viegas. Alfragide: Oficina do Livro, 2009.
Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 192 pp. ISBN:
978-989-555-462-1. $38.00
The
author's O dia em
que o mar desapareceu (2003) was
awarded the Prémio Manuel Teixeira Gomes—Conto—Second
Prize, 2002. Born in Boticas, 1963, he has a degree in
architecture, and has written several volumes of poetry;
his poems have been translated and published in several
countries. His Os sete
epígonos de Tebas won the Prémio
Nacional de Poesia Sebastião da Gama, 2009. The present
novella is his first "romance".
305.
BRANQUINHO, Alberto. Cambança:
passagens da morte e da vida em maré baixa.
2nd
ed., revised. Lisbon: SeteCaminhos, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 99 pp. ISBN: 978-989-602-164-1. $20.00
Originally
published in 2005, these short stories are based on the
author's experiences fighting the colonial wars in Guiné.
The author, a lawyer born in 1944, has published
Pre/texto
(1973)
and Sobre/vivências
(2004).
306.
BRITO, Rui de. Banana
split. 2nd ed.,
revised. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 2007. Contemporânea,
134. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 171, (1) pp., (2 ll. advt.).
ISBN: 978-972-1-05758-6. $40.00
First published
1979. Novella the author of the novels Sud Express
(1999),
and Nos olhos
do camaleão (2001). The
present work is considered shocking by some, even
pornographic. It is said to be a departure from
"politically correct" traditional Portuguese literature.
307.
CABRAL, Filomena. Vertigem.
Lisbon:
Teorema, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 149 pp., (1 l.).
ISBN: 978-972-695-797-3. $40.00
Romantic
novella. Born in Porto in 1944, Filomena Cabral has
published at least 4 volumes of poetry, 1 of theater, and
20 of fiction (including several works dealing with the
Portuguese emigrant experience). A resident of Angola in
the 1960s and 1970s, she has been published and awarded
prizes in Brazil, and was co-founder of the review
Serpente
(1983). See
Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 89-90.
308.
CABRITA, António. Tormentas
de Mandrake e de Tintin no Congo. Lisbon:
Teorema, 2008. Colecção Outras Estórias. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 289 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-695-752-2.
$50.00
Short stories.
António Cabrita, born in Almada, 1959, has written at least
ten books, including at least three volumes of fiction, and
at least four of poetry, and at least one play. He also
co-authored a play about Camilo Castelo Branco with Maria
Velho da Costa. He edited the review Contruções
portuárias. He worked as
a journalist for many years, and wrote criticism for the
weekly Expresso
between 1988
and 2004.
309.
CARMELO, Luís. A pé pelo
paraíso. Mem Martins:
Europa-América, 2008. Contemporânea, 159. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 139, (1) PP., (1 l., 1 l. advt.). ISBN:
978-972-1-05949-8. $35.00
Short stories.
The author, born in Évora in 1954, has published at least
ten works of longer fiction, three volumes of poetry, a
play, at least a dozen collections of essays, as well as
his doctoral dissertation from the University of
Utrecht: Représentation
du Réel dans les textes Prophétiques de la Littérature
Aliamiado–Morisque (1995). Luís
Carmelo was a professor on the Faculdade de Letras da
Universidade de Lisboa, and since 1990, associated with the
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. He was awarded the Prémio
APE Ensaio in 1988.
310.
CARVALHO, Rodrigo Leal de. Requiem por
Irina Ostrakoff. Macau: Livros
do Oriente, 1993. Colecção Macau / Leituras. Tall 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 301 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-9418-13-6. $35.00
Novel patterned
after English colonial fiction of Kipling, Conrad, and
Somerset Maugham, which terminates in Macau, ca. 1917, with
Russian and Chinese revolutions in the background.
311.
CASTELO BRANCO, Camilo. Amor de
perdição. Introduction by
Ester de Lemos. Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Verbo Clássicos. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 297 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-972-22-2891-6. $30.00
312.
COELHO, [José Francisco] Trindade. O meus
amores. Introduction by
João Bigotte Chorão. Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Verbo Clássicos.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 376 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-972-22-2906-7. $30.00
313.
COUTINHO, Lourenço Pereira. Baile de
máscaras. Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2008. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 326 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-385-3. $50.00
Novel set in
Portugal in 1805 at the court of D. João, the Prince
Regent, on the eve of the Napoleonic invasion. The author
was born in Lisbon, 1973. He has written an historical
work, Do Ulimato
à República, as well as
the novels Fim
d'época, and
Na sobra de
João XXI. At the time
this volume appeared, he was studying for a doctorate in
history at the University of Évora.
314.
CRUZ, Liberto, and Madalena Carretero Cruz, eds.
Ruben A.:
antologia. Lisbon: Roma
Editora, 2009. Colecção Faces de Penélope, 4. 8°, publ.
gilt-stamped cloth with d.j. 287 pp., chronological table,
bibliography. ISBN: 978-989-8063-36-6. $50.00
Includes mostly
fiction and some theater. The editors provide a substantial
introduction (pp. 9-24). On Ruben A.[i.e. Ruben (Alfredo)
Andresen Leitão, 1920-1975] see Lourinda Bom in Machado,
ed., Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 13-4;
Clara Rocha in Biblos,
IV, 1017-20; Saraiva & Lopes, 16th ed., pp. 1104, 1165
and 1172.
315.
DINIS, Júlio. As pupilas
do Senhor Reitor. Introduction by
Maria Ema Tarracha Ferreira. Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Verbo
Clássicos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 511 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-972-22-2890-9. $30.00
316.
FERNANDES, Francisco. A casa do
penedo da gaivota. Introduction by
Ana Margarida Falcão. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004.
Colecção Autores da Madeira, Romance, 8. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 106 pp., (1 l., 1 l. advt.). ISBN: 978-972-610-800-4.
$25.00
This novella
won "special mention" of the Jury of the Prémio Literário
Edmundo Bettencourt, Câmara Municipal do Funchal. The
protagonist relects on the events and people of his life,
inspired while he watches the construction of his new
"dream" house. The introduction states, "Quem ler este
romance perceberá, nos ecos da sua leitura, que, para além
da história contada, nele se dimensiona a intensa
sensibilidade do retrato de um cidadão com mundo em tela de
fundo."
317.
GAMA, João. Evangelho
de um ateu. Preface by
Manuel Nunes. Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2009. Colecção Casa de
Escritores, 7. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 180 pp., (1 l.),
bibliography. ISBN: 978-989-8063-47-2. $35.00
Appears to be a
collection of short fiction with religious and
philosophical overtones.
318.
GÓIS, José Laurindo Leal de. O fogo e a
lágrima. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2003. Colecção Autores da Madeira, Poesia, 5.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 104 pp. ISBN: 978-972-610-643-5.
$20.00
Poetry ranges
from short stanzas, others that in large paragraphs of
blank verse, and experimental forms.
319.
GOUVEIA, São Moniz. O templo
móvel. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2002. Colecção Autores da Madeira, Poesia, 2.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 76 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-972-610-529-3. $20.00
This book of
poems is divided into four sections, named after the
seasons: Primavera; Verão, Outono; Inverno. Many of the
poems in this collection have classical and biblical
undertones. The author was born on the island of Madeira in
1967. He belongs to the Writer's Association of Madeira
[Escritores da Madeira (AEM)], an organization that he
co-founded. He has also published other books of poetry,
establishing himself as a young and important voice in the
poetry from Madeira, Cartas para um Tenente (1996); 11
Poemas de Crisálida (1994); Lupus in fabula (2001); A Musa
das Coisas Pequenas (2003); 10+1 Poetas para Estar (2004).
320.
HERCULANO [de Carvalho e Araújo], Alexandre.
O
bobo. Introduction by
Ernesto Rodrigues. Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Verbo Clássicos.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 295 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-972-22-2888-6. $30.00
321.
LETRIA, José Jorge. Coração sem
abrigo. Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2009. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 163 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-469-0. $38.00
The author's
book of poems, Sobre
retratos (2008), was
awarded the Prémio de Poesia Nuno Júdice, 2007, by the
Câmara Municipal de Aveiro. José Jorge Letria's
A dúvida
melódica was awarded the
Prémio de Poesia Cidade da Amadora, 1993. Born in Cascais
in 1951, he has published at least 34 volumes of poetry, a
number of which have also been awarded literary prizes,
including the Prémio Eça de Queiroz–Município de Lisboa
(twice), the Prémio Gulbenkian, and others. See
Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, p. 266. His
historical novella, Morro
bem, salvem a pátria (2005), was set
around the assassination of Sidónio Pais at the Rossio
Station in Lisbon, December 1918. His O que
Darwin escreveu a Deus (2009),
consists of numerous imaginary letters. From January 1994
until January 2002 Letria was Vereador da Cultura for the
Câmara Municipal de Cascais.
322.
LIMA, Paula de Sousa. Tempo
adiado. Lisbon: Asa,
2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 191, (1) pp. ISBN:
978-989-23-0597-4. $40.00
Born in Lisbon,
has lived in the Açores, her parents' birthplace, since age
six, with a stay in Moçambique. She has contributed
articles about language and literature to newspapers, and
is co-author of a book on Portuguese grammar. Her short
stories have appeared in newspapers and reviews. She has
published two "romances", Crónica dos
Senhores do Lenho, and
Variações
em dor maior.
323.
LISTOPAD, Jorge. Deslizamento.
Matosinhos:
Quidnovi, 2009. Quidnovi Literatura Portuguesa. 8°, publ.
bds. with d.j. 159 pp. ISBN: 978-989-628-124-3. $40.00
This volume is
said to combine the short story, micro-fiction, theater,
short essays, and memoirs. Listopad has written more than
25 volumes of poetry, stories, and novels. Born in Prague,
he worked 32 years for RTP. He is said to have learned
Portuguese by reading O crime do
Padre Amaro in Portuguese
without a dictionary. He has directed some 70 theatrical
works in Portugal, and has worked in theater outside
Portugal, for example, in Zürich, where he directed Vaclav
Havel's The
Office. He has
translated Fernando Pessoa into Czech.
324.
LOBO, Domingos. Território
inimigo, contos. Chamusca:
Cosmos, 2009. Colecção Nova Biblioteca Cosmos / Ficção
Portuguesa, 2. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 133 pp., (2
ll.). ISBN: 978-972-762-328-0. $35.00
The author has
written three previous works of fiction, one of
which, Os navios
negreiros não sobem o Cuando (1993), was
awarded the Prémio Literário Cidade de Torres Vedras. He
has also had published three volumes of poetry, and has
written three plays.
325.
MACHADO, Carlos Alberto. 5 cervejas
para o Virgílio. Lisbon:
&etc., 2009. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 52 pp., (4
ll.). ISBN: 978-989-8150-15-8. $30.00
Brief
semi-fictional stories and dialogues. The author has had
published two works of prose: As regras
do jogo: o Teatro da Cornucópia e a crítica,
1973–1995, and
Cuidar dos
mortos, as well as
two plays, and at least five volumes of poetry. "Virgílio"
referes to Virgílio Martinho (1928-1994), published author
of works of fiction and plays; there is a bibliography of
his works on the recto of the second unnumbered leaf near
the end, and the present volume is dedicated to his memory.
On the verso of the half title is stated: "Os textos e as
conversas com o Virgílio são aqui deliberadamente objecto
de torções e distorções—a minha 'Invenção'. Eventuais
semelhanças com pessoas e acontecimentos 'verídicos' não
são puras coinciências."
326.
mãe, valter hugo. O nosso
reino. 2nd ed.
Matosinhos: Quidnovi, 2009. Quidnovi Literatura Portuguesa.
8°, publ. bds. with d.j. 150 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-989-628-135-9. $40.00
First published
2004. Born in Henrique de Carvalho, Angola in 1971, the
author was awarded the Prémio Revelação de Poesia Almeida
Garrett for 1999, by the Associação dos Jornalistas e
Homens de Letras do Porto for his book egon
schiele auto-retrato de dupla encarnação.
He
was also awarded the Prémio José Saramago, 2007, by the
Fundação Círculo de Leitores, for his novella
O remorso
de baltazar serapião (2007). A
dramatist and contributor to various literary reviews, he
worked at the Centro de Estudos Regianos. He has published
at least 9 volumes of poetry, and edited several important
anthologies. Along with Jorge Reis-Sá, he has been
responsible for Quasi Edições. This was valter hugo mãe's
first book of fiction, billed on the publisher's "belt" of
the original edition as "uma revelação no romance
português". It was selected by the Diário de
notícias as one of the
best Portuguese "romances" of 2004.
327.
MARQUES, João Lopes. O homem que
queria ser Lindbergh. Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2007. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 373, (1) pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-555-312-9.
$50.00
Carlos Bernardo
is a youngster with a passion for airplanes, living near
Portela de Sacavém, the site of the Lisbon airport. He
senses himself badly adapted to his homeland on account of
his education in the Deutsche Schule Lissabon and because
of his association with Portuguese "estrangeirados", and
contact with a certain pro-German elite. When the airline
Magic-Wings decides to recruit new crews for its
Lisbon-Berlin and Lisbon-Cracow routes, Carlos Bernardo,
one of the few candidates with German-language skills,
easily earns a place with the German company. Aboard the
magnificent Airbus, he gets to know things he previously
thought did not exist, poligamy and homosexuality,
friendship and betrayal, cowardice and courage. He
discovers as well that the lives of his idols, among them
Charles Lindbergh, Dieter Topp (founder of Magic-Wings),
and the ambassador Francisco Cunha Telles, his beloved
father-in-law, are far from what is officially known. What
then is to prevent Carlos Bernardo from leading a double
life? This is the author's first novel. His second,
Terra
Java, appeared in
2008, also published by Oficina do Livro.
328.
MARTINS, Fernando Cabral. A flor
fatal. Lisbon: Assírio
& Alvim, 2009. Colecção A Phala, 38. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 156 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l. colophon). One of 750
copies. ISBN: 978-972–37–1439-5. $35.00
Novella set in
Greater Lisbon toward the end of the twentieth century, in
classes in Portuguese language at a secondary school where
there are experiments with hard drugs and difficult
relationships. According to the publisher's blurb on the
rear cover, "um professor torna-se alono de uma ciência
oculta, o amor, e uma rapariga torna-se mulher." The author
won the Prémio João Pinto de Figueiredo given by the
Associação Internacional de Críticos Literários for
Cesário
Verde ou a transformação do mundo, 1988. He is a
noted film critic; his first novel, Ao cair da
noite, is said to be
marked by a cinematic tone. For Ao cair da
noite, he was
awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela, the Prémio
Pen Club Ficção, and the Prémio Eça de Queiroz, Cidade de
Lisboa.
329.
MARTINS, Maria João. Escola de
validos. Lisbon:
Teorema, 2007. Colecção Outras Estórias. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 128 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-695-735-5.
$35.00
Novella set in
Lisbon, 1662. The Queen Regent, D. Luísa de Gusmão, is in
search of a miracle to free her son the King D. Afonso VI
from imbecility. D. Francisco Manuel de Melo and Father
António Vieira are key players, as are the Conti brothers,
merchants. Born in Vila Franca de Xira, 1967, she has
worked as a journalist since age 20, winning several prizes
for her reporting, working for Jornal de
letras,
Artes e
ideias,
Vogue
Portugal, and
Visão.
She has also written O paraíso
triste: o quotidiano em Lisboa durante a II Guerra
Mundial (1994)
and Mulheres
portuguesas: divas, santas e demónios
(1994). This is
her first book of fiction.
330.
MARTINS, Rui Cardoso. Deixem
passar o homem invisível. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 235 pp. ISBN:
978-972-20-3828-7. $45.00
The author, a
journalist who founded the Lisbon daily Público,
was born in Portalegre, 1967. His essays have been awarded
prizes, and he has written for television and film. This
novella, or brief novel, appears to be his second work of
longer fiction. His first, E se eu
gostasse muito de morrer (2006), has
gone through four editions, and has been published in Spain
and Hungary. His short stories have appeared in various
literary reviews and magazines, such as Ficções,
Egoísta,
and Magyar
Lettre Internationale.
331.
McSHADE, Dennis, pseud., [i.e. Dinis Machado].
Mulher e
arma com guitarra espanhola. Lisbon: Assírio
& Alvim, 2009. Colecção A Phala, 36. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 159, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-972–37–1400-5. $40.00
First published
in Amadora: Ibis, 1968, then Lisbon: Circulo de Leitores,
1987. The author has had published at least three books
under his own name, as well as three detective novels (or
novellas) under the pseudonym Dennis McShade.
332.
MELO, João de. A divina
miséria, novela. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2009. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 118 pp. ISBN: 978-972-20-3813-3. $32.00
The author was
born on the island of São Miguel in the Azores (1949). He
took part in the Glacial
literary
movement in Angra between 1969 and 1973. His novel
Gente feliz
com lágrimas won the most
important literary prizes for the year 1989.
Autópsia de
um mar de ruínas went through
six editions between 1984 and 1997; the fifth edition alone
sold 18,000 copies, a considerable popular success in
Portugal. Another huge successis was his novel
O meu mundo
não é deste reino (1987; revised
ed. 1990; 8th ed. 2003). Melo has published in excess of 25
volumes, including 6 novels, 6 collections of stories, 1
volume of poetry, 3 anthologies, 5 collections of essays,
and a travel book about the Azores. See Maria Nazaré Gomes
dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 307-8.
333.
MENDONÇA, Antonino. Frei
Bernardo. Preface by Frei
Bento Domingues, O.P. Lisbon: Multinova, 2008. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 247 pp. ISBN: 978-989-551-055-9. $45.00
334.
MONGINHO, Julieta. A terceira
mãe. Porto: Campo
das Letras, 2008. Colecção Campo da literatura, 163. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 276 pp. ISBN: 978-989-625-296-0. $35.00
Awarded the
Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela, APE / DGLB for 2008.
Julieta Monginho was born in Lisbon, 1958.
Juízo
perfeito (1996), her
first novel, has had a second edition. Her second novel
was A paixão
segundo os infiés (1998). She
published a third novel À tua
espera, in 2000. Her
fouth novel, in the form of a diary, Onde está
J.? was published
in 2002. She also published a collection of essays with a
decidedly literary bent Dicionário
dos livros sensíveis (2000).
335.
MOREIRAS, Paulo. Os dias de
Saturno. Matosinhos:
Quidnovi, 2009. Quidnovi Literatura Portuguesa. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 205, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-989-628-150-2. $40.00
Long novella
which begins in 1699, where Domingos Rodrigues, cook for
the king, D. Pedro II, and author of the first Portuguese
cookbook, meets with his great friend, royal physician Dr.
João Curvo Semedo, author of several medical treatises.
Both said to be alchemists. They go to the terrace of the
Convento de Cristo, in Tomar, formerly the seat of the
Order of the Knights Templar in Portugal, and since shortly
after the extinction of the order in Portugal, the
headquarters of the Order of Christ, to observe an eclipse
of the sun. Thus begin a series of strange events, in what
is billed by the publisher in a blurb on the front cover as
"Um romance fascinante sobre o amor e a sua
impossibilidade, com doses iguais de humor e dramatismo."
Paulo Moreiras is the author of A demanda
de D. Guas Bragatela (2002), a
"Romance pícaro" set in Portugal and Spain of the
fourteenth century. The central character is a Quixote-like
figure. The author was born in Lourenço Marques,
Moçambique, 1969. He arrived in Portugal in 1975, first
living in Douro, then Almada; he was residing in Meirinhas,
between Leiria and Pombal, when this book appeared. He has
published previously limited editions of poetry, prose, and
comics. In 1996 he was responsible for the text in the
comic book album Hermínio,
regresso a Portucale, for which
Victor Borges was the artist. Having worked for a year as a
journalist from August 2000 to August 2001, he published a
treatise on Portuguese cherry liqueur, Elogio da
ginja.
336.
MOURA, Leonel. 30 gramas,
novela. Lisbon: LxXL
Edições, 2009. Colecção Arte, X. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 78
pp., 1 illus. ISBN: 978-972-8615-05-5. $25.00
Gianfranco is
obsessed with the contents of small cans created by Piero
Manzoni in 1961. He wants to open one in order to know if
they really contain the artist's feces. This is the
beginning of a bizarre adventure. The author was born in
Lisbon in 1948. An artist and architect, he has lived in
Algeria and the Netherlands. He has contributed to various
periodical publications, and has had books published in
Portugal, Spain, and France. His novella, Fogo em
Lisboa, was published
by Campo das Letras in 2003. A volume of essays,
Formigas,
vagabundos e anarquia: ensaio sobre vida artificial, arte e
sociedade, was published
the same year by AAAL, Alife Art Architecture Lab.
337.
NORTON, José. O
milionário de Lisboa. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2009. Livros d'Hoje, História Viva. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 277 pp. ISBN: 978-972-20-3827-0. $45.00
Fictionalized
biography of Joaquim Pedro Quintela do Farrobo, 2º Barão de
Quintela and 1º Conde de Farrobo. On the subject,
see Grande
enciclopédia, X, 794-6.
José Norton, an economist born in 1944, has published
biographies of Norton de Matos and Pina Manique, as well
as Memórias
políticas do Marquês de Alorna, and
O último
Távora.
338.
OLIVEIRA, Jorge Amaral de. As agruras
de Beiraldo Alma. Lisbon:
Teorema, 2008. Colecção Outras Estórias. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 189 pp. ISBN: 978-972-695-750-8. $40.00
Historical
novella set, according to the publisher's blurb, in late
eighteenth-century Portugal, before the earthquake
[sic].
The author has written a number of prize-winning works.
His O Português
ou escravos de esperança won the Prémio
Edmundo Bettencourt—Prémio Literário Cidade do Funchal,
2002; his Was Bach
Brazilian? written jointly
with Mucio Sá, was awarded the Prémio FNAC / Teorema,
2004. Mäiyushî: o
espírito da aldeia was awarded the
Prémio António Paulouro, 2007, by the Câmara Municipal do
Fundão.
339.
PEPETELA, pseud. [i.e. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos
Santos]. O planalto
e a estepe, romance. 4th ed. Lisbon:
Dom Quixote, 2009. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. Lge. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 190 pp. ISBN: 978-972-20-3784-6. $40.00
The first
edition is said to have appeared in April 2009; this fourth
edition is said to have been published in June. The present
novella is described in a publisher's blurb on the front
cover thus: "Angola, dos anos 60 aos nossos dias. A
história real de um amor impossível. The Angolan–born
author of the present novella was awarded the Prémio Camões
for the totality of his literary output. The Prémio Camões
has been described by his publisher as "the most important
literary prize in the Portuguese language." Pepetela 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); Jaime
Bunda e a morte do Americano (2003—3rd ed.
2005); O
terrorista de Berkeley, Califórnia
(2007); and O quasi
fim do mundo (2008). All
were published by Dom Quixote.
340.
QUEIROZ, José Maria de Eça de. Contos I.
Edição de Marie-Hélene Piwnik. Preface by
Carlos Reis (series editor). Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional,
2009. Edição Crítica das Obras de Eça de Queirós. Ficção,
Não-póstumos. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 405 pp., (1 l.
colophon). ISBN: 978-972–27–1618–5. $75.00
Piwnik's
heavily annotated introduction occupies pp. [15]-32.
Twenty-three short stories are presented here in their
critical texts.
341.
REAL, Miguel. A
ministra. 2nd ed.
Matosinhos: Quidnovi, 2009. Quidnovi Literatura Portuguesa.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 133 pp. ISBN: 978-989-628-145-8.
$38.00
Said to have
first been published in July 2009; this second edition is
said to have been published the same month. According to a
publisher's blurb on the front cover of this novella: "To
rise in life is in her blood. Her ambition? To become a
government minister." Miguel Real's historical novel
O último
negreiro (2006), tells
the story of Francisco Felix de Sousa, called the greatest
Portuguese slave trader, who lived in Bahia and Benim from
the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, building
an empire of land, ships, and men. Father of more than 100
offspring, Sousa continued to trade in slaves even after
the slave trade was abolished. His historical novel
A voz da
terra (2005; 2nd ed.
2005), awarded the prémio Fernando Namora, 2006, was about
the Marquês de Pombal and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The
author's novel A visão de
Túndalo por Eça de Queirós (2000) was
awarded the Prémio Literário Ler by the Fundação Círculo de
Leitores. He was previously awarded the Prémio de Revelação
APE / IPLB, Ensaio Literário / 1995. Born in Lisbon in
1953, Miguel Real has published a number of works of
literary history and criticism, as well as secondary school
literary manuals, and a novel in which Plato, near death,
confesses to having invented Socrates, using an honored old
slave as his model. He has written for the theater in
collaboration with Filomena Oliveira. He also wrote
Memórias de
Branca Dias (2003), a novel
based on the legendary Branca Dias, a matriarch of
sixteenth-century Pernambuco, one of the first female
plantation owners in Brazil.
342.
RIBEIRO, Aquilino (1885-1963). A casa
grande de Romarigães, crónica romanceada.
João Abel
Manta, illus. Lisbon: Bertrand Editora, 2007. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 289 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-972-25-1629-7.
$35.00
Novel set in
Baixo Minho. On the major novelist Aquilino [Gomes]
Ribeiro, considered by some the best Portuguese prose
writer of the twentieth century, see Óscar Lopes in
Machado, ed., Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 415-6;
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues in Biblos,
IV, 776-81; and Dicionário
cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 320-4.
343.
ROCHETA, Maria Isabel, and Serafina Martins, eds.
Conto
português, séculos XIX-XXI. Volume
2: Antologia
crítica. Porto: Caixotim
Edições, 2009. Colecção "Antologias do Caixotim". Lge. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 260 pp., (2 ll.), bibliographies,
chapter endnotes. ISBN: 978-972-8100-26-9. $40.00
Authors
represented in this anthology are Júlio Dinis, Eça de
Queirós, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, José Régio, Miguel Torga,
Herberto Helder, Maria Ondina Braga, and Teolinda Gersão.
Each of the stories has a significant "leitura"; these are
written by Gonçalo Cordeiro, Maria Isabel Rocheta, Clara
Rocha, Teresa Martins Marques, José A. Cardoso Bernardes,
Patrícia Cardoso, Serafina Martins, and Annabela Rita.
344.
SALGUEIRO, Francisco. A praia da
saudade. Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2009. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 281 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-446-1. $45.00
Novel about
love in the waning years of the Salazar regime, when
Coca-Cola was prohibited in 1964, and the PIDE were active.
Beatriz had had a strict Catholic education, and was a
member of the Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina. Rodrigo was a
critic of the regime. Forty-five years later, Rodrigo's
grandson opens a safe to discover their love letters. The
author, born in Lisbon, 1972, wrote three humorous novels,
as well as two somewhat more serious romantic novels prior
to the present one.
345.
SÃO PEDRO, Maria de. Lua de
lobos. Preface by
Vítor Escudero Lisbon: Fonte da Palavra, 2009. Lge. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 95 pp. ISBN: 978-989-667-007-8. $22.00
The author of
these short stories, born in 1943, has had more than 200
exhibitions of her paintings, sculptures, and "vitral". Her
short stories have appeared in newspapers and anthologies,
as have her poems. She published in 2003
Senhores do medo, about
domestic violence.
346.
SARAMAGO, José. Caim,
romance. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2009. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 181 pp. ISBN:
978-972-21-2076-0. $40.00
The present
novella is the latest publication of this Nobel
Prize-winning author.
347.
TAVARES, Miguel Sousa. No teu
deserto. Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2009. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 125 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-464-5. $35.00
Criminal
attorney turned journalist, Miguel Sousa Tavares has become
one of Portugal's most highly regarded and successful
authors of fiction. The present novella is subtitled "Quase
romance" on the front cover, but not on the title page.
His Rio das
flores, a novel set
in Seville, the Alentejo, and Brazil between 1915 and 1945,
the third edition of which appeared in November 2007, is
said to have had a print run of 25,000 copies. The first
two editions appeared only shortly earlier. Sousa Tavares
has written three travel books, a story for children, and a
volume of short stories. His first novel,
Equador
(2003; many
subsequent editions), went quickly to the top of the
Portuguese bestseller lists, and has also enjoyed critical
success. Set in São Tomé, it had an initial printing of
30,000 copies in the Spring of 2003, in a country where
novels usually have initial printings of between 1,000 and
3,000 copies. The 12th edition had a print run of 10,000
copies.
348.
VASCONCELOS, Pedro. 1621.
Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 358
pp., map in text. ISBN: 978-989-555-433-1. $50.00
Sequel to the
author's two previous historical novels,
1613 (2005; 2nd ed.,
2006), and 1617:
Shalom, Molan (2007), set in
the Portuguese "Estado da Índia". The present work centers
on travels between Morocco and The Netherlands. The author
was born in Lisbon, 1961. He has lived in Paris, Belgrad,
Timor, and Zaire. He has written numerous articles in
newspapers, magazines and reviews. This is his third novel,
and apparently his third book.
349.
VENDEIRINHO, Luís [Miguel Brandão]. Cátedra de
mármore. Lisbon: Roma
Editora, 2009. Colecção Casa de Escritores, 6. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 140 pp. ISBN: 978-989-8063-42-7. $30.00
The author of
this novella, born in Lisbon in 1957, has published at
least six previous books, including essays and fiction.
350.
VENTURA, Fábio. Orbias: as
guerreiras da deusa. Lisbon: Casa
das Letras, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 395 pp. ISBN:
978-972-46-1902-6. $50.00
Novel of
fantasy and adventure. The author was born in Portimão,
1986. He received a degree in communications science from
the Universidade do Algave in 2008, and has been working in
the production of television programs for the channel SIC.
This is his first book.
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