The Art of Being a Tiger

Ana Luísa Amaral

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• Ana Luísa Amaral, one of Portugal's most acclaimed contemporary writers, was born in Lisbon in 1956. A scholar of Anglo-American literatures with a do... Lees meer

Exemplary Tales

Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen

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• Published in 1962, this short story collection foreshadows two other iconic 1960s works--by the Mozambican Honwana and the Angolan Vieira--in the way ... Lees meer

The Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish and Other Texts, 5

António Vieira

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• António Vieira's The Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish and Other Texts is the first collection of his writings to appear in English. Lees meer

Clepsydra and Other Poems

Camilo Pessanha

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• The only collection of poems to be published by the Portuguese writer Camilo Pessanha during his lifetime, Clepsydra is the crowning achievement of th... Lees meer

Ualalapi

Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

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• Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa first published Ualalapi: Fragments from the End of Empire in Portuguese in 1987. Named one of Africa's hundred best books of the... Lees meer

Producing Presences, 2

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• Scholars examine Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's work in the context of the Portuguese-speaking world. Lees meer

Saint Christopher

José Maria de Eça de Queirós

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• Set in the Middle Ages but written in the early twentieth century, Eça de Queirós's novella, Saint Christopher , is a powerful indictment of those who... Lees meer

Chaos and Splendor & Other Essays, 1

Eduardo Lourenço

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• Seen from the dawn of the twenty-first century, the essays of Eduardo Lourenço (b. 1923) are a philosophical arch that spans the twentieth century, an... Lees meer

Sonnets and Other Poems

Luís de Camões

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• Sonnets and Other Poems offers a cross section of lyric poetry from Portugal's Luís de Camões, author of The Lusiads (1572), the great Renaissance epi... Lees meer

The Relic

José Maria de Eça de Queirós

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• The Relic is an irreverent fictional autobiography narrating the picaresque adventures of Teodorico, a Portuguese playboy determined to be the sole he... Lees meer

The Correspondence of Fradique Mendes, 6

José Maria de Eça de Queirós

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• The Correspondence of Fradique Mendes --ostensibly letters, with an arch introduction--actually ranges widely and revels in many forms of discourse. I... Lees meer

Chiquinho

Baltazar Lopes

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• Originally published in Portuguese in 1947, Baltazar Lopes's Chiquinho offers a rich and compelling exploration of Cabo Verde's unique identity. Traci... Lees meer

Maiden and Modest, 8

Bernardim Ribeiro

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• Modern readers will be surprised by Ribeiro's complex treatment of love and longing in Maiden and Modest (1554), because his narrative of suffering an... Lees meer

Minotaur, Parrot, and the SS Man

George Monteiro

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• An undisputed giant of twentieth-century Portuguese letters, writer and literary critic Jorge de Sena (1919-1978) spent the most productive decades of... Lees meer

The Traveling Eye, 4

Fernando Gil, Helder Macedo

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• The idea for The Traveling Eye came as a new departure in an old dialogue between the two authors, one a literary scholar, the other a philosopher. Ou... Lees meer