by José Cardoso Pires · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722013987
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«De profundis, valsa lenta» is the autobiographical account by José Cardoso Pires, published in Portuguese in paperback by Publicações Dom Quixote in 1997.
José Cardoso Pires narrates in the first person his experience after suffering a stroke and describes how the illness dissolves memory, suspends speech and dulls sensitivity, in a testimony about the limits of language and consciousness. The volume opens with a letter-preface by João Lobo Antunes.
The work was awarded in 1997 the D. Diniz Prize from the Fundação da Casa de Mateus and the Critics' Prize from the Associação Portuguesa de Críticos Literários.
For readers of Portuguese literature and autobiographical non-fiction, as well as for those interested in accounts of illness and memory.
