by Camilo Castelo Branco, José María Eça de Queirós, Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro · Gadir Editorial, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494179990
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This anthology is a tribute to four of the greatest authors of modern Portuguese literature, insufficiently known in the field of Spanish-speaking readers: Camilo Castelo Branco, José María Eça de Queirós, Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro. Representative stories by these authors have been selected, which can be a good introduction to their work for those readers who have not read them before, or a good complement to what has already been read, since in several cases these are texts not previously translated into Spanish. Love is the theme of the stories by Castelo Branco and Eça de Queirós. The first, a story of spiritual love taken to the limit; the second, a case of pathological love that mixes drama with irony and Eça's incomparable humor. Fernando Pessoa's stories are a small mosaic within the great mosaic that is Pessoa's work, always brilliant. The two stories by Sá-Carneiro are an excellent example of the vital concerns of Pessoa's brilliant friend.
Camilo Castelo Branco, 1st Viscount of Correia Botelho, was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having produced over 260 books. His writing is considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm, bitterness and dark humour. He is also celebrated for his peculiar wit and anecdotal character, as well as for his turbulent life.
