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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.
Heroes of the Bush
Yet another battalion departs for Mozambique, to fight in a seemingly endless war. It includes a reservist 2nd lieutenant and a private who barely know each other. Having left behind his fiancée, a medical student, the officer indulges in transient passions and reckless behavior. The private, married and with a daughter, struggles to survive in a strange environment, among hostile animals and plants, mined paths, ambushes, scorching sun and blinding fog. Back in Portugal, the officer’s fiancée and the private’s wife survive amidst fear, prejudice, and misery, guided by their natural strength and by love.
The Bashful Frog
This collection of fairytales contains six stories: The Bashful Frog, which is the title of the collection; The Rooster That Wanted to See the World; The Witch and the Cauldron; The Onion Seller; The Ugly Princess; and The Prince of the Strange Kingdom.
Correspondência - I
Esta obra contém as cartas que José Leon Machado enviou aos falecidos escritores Vergílio Ferreira, José Saramago e João Aguiar entre 1994 e 2006. O principal assunto é a literatura. O autor faz saber aos escritores a sua opinião acerca das obras que os mesmos iam publicando e que ele ia lendo. Estas opiniões remetem muitas vezes para estudos críticos de âmbito universitário e recensões publicadas na imprensa, sendo pois um documento importante para o estudo das obras dos referidos escritores.
O Construtor de Cidades
"O Construtor de Cidades" descreve em primeira pessoa o quotidiano de um professor de Biologia a trabalhar numa escola pública. As dificuldades, as desilusões e a desmotivação que advêm da sua relação com os alunos e com os colegas, tão ou mais desmotivados do que ele próprio, as alterações constantes à legislação educativa e aos programas de ensino que sucessivos governos vão impondo a um ritmo impossível de assimilar e de pôr em prática com sucesso, levam-no a um estado de prostração e de desânimo. É esse estado que permitirá à personagem refletir no seu papel numa sociedade em crise que se desmorona diante dos seus olhos. O único refúgio possível é o passado, tempo mítico de amores, de ilusões e de felicidade.
Dicionário Breve de Autores Portugueses
O Dicionário Breve de Autores Portugueses baseia-se no volume de dados acumulado ao longo de dezasseis anos no site do Projeto Vercial publicado na Internet. Embora não seja exaustivo, contém informações biobibliográficas dos nomes mais importantes da literatura portuguesa desde a Idade Média até à atualidade.
Auto da Índia de Gil Vicente
Vieram dizer a uma mulher de nome Constança que, estando o seu marido embarcado para a Índia, já não partia. Ela então começou a chorar de desconsolo. A criada, surpreendida com a choradeira, exclama: – Credo, minha senhora! Daqui a pouco inunda a casa. Tudo isso é porque se parte a armada e com ela o seu marido? – És mesmo parva! Então eu iria chorar por isso? – Por minha alma que imaginei que choráveis pelo patrão. – Ó minha tonta, eu choro porque dizem que já não vai.
On Saramago
"For many decades, José Saramago has been a staunch defender of the role of literature to both serve and be perceived as public discourse. When, in October 1998, he became the first Portuguese-language author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, his conviction was supported by the assurance that, at any rate, this particular writer's literary discourse was guaranteed to be widely (and globally) publicized. If, as Wlad Godzich has claimed, the severely limited possibility of public discourse in the contemporary world is compensated by the ever-multiplying variety of ways to publicize discourses ("Workshop"), Saramago has taken full advantage of the opportunities offered in this respect by the Nobel prize as probably the most effective institutionalized instrument of publicity that high literary discourse which is produced worldwide has at its annual disposal. His international visibility greatly amplified, Saramago could be seen in the last two years shuttling the globe and making globally publicized statements on behalf of the many political causes that have attracted his attention and support." -- Publisher's description.
