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Darkening Stars
"Darkening Stars - A Novel of the Great War" is about a young law student who was drafted to serve as a platoon commander in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps sent to Flanders in 1917. What happened to him and the men under his command, the small and great miseries of their life in the trenches, their links with what they left behind and what they lost, and the incomprehension they met upon returning home, are some of the main lines of this moving and historically accurate portrait of one of the most turbulent periods of Portuguese history. It is also a story of love and of a young man's inner struggles and personal growth, his determined search for peace and happiness, along a path strewn with destruction and trampled dreams.
Mosaics of Meaning
This volume examines, in English, the role of emblems in the Portuguese-speaking world, their distinctive qualities and their links with the wider European tradition. Luis Gomes brings together studies ranging over a wide corpus of material, in both Portugal and Brazil, from manuscripts to printed books to the famous azulejos."
“The” Athenaeum
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Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18)
This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the war. These fall broadly into two categories. Firstly personal, micro-narratives that deal directly with the experience of war, often derived from contemporary interest in diaries and oral histories. Presenting both a close-up view of the viscerality, and the tedium and powerlessness of personal situations, these same narratives also address the effects of the war on hitherto under-regarded groups such as children and animals. Secondly, the authors look at the impact of the course of the war on theatres, often left out in reflections on the main European combatants and therefore not part of the regular iconography of the trenches in places such as Denmark, Canada, India, the Levant, Greece and East Africa.
Correspondência com Sete amigas
As cartas publicadas nesta coletânea foram trocadas entre José Barbosa Machado e sete amigas, de 1983 a 1996. Nessa época, os amores e as amizades eram mantidos e alimentados à distância sobretudo através de cartas, a forma mais barata de comunicar. As sete amigas, todas jovens, são muito diferentes nas vivências, na cultura e nos interesses. Não deu o destinatário das cartas o tempo por perdido, pois aprendeu muito com estes diálogos múltiplos. As suas é de crer que terão surtido o mesmo efeito naquelas que as receberam.
