by Alberto Manguel · Companhia das Letras · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788571649835
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«Stevenson sob as palmeiras» is the novel by Alberto Manguel, published by Companhia das Letras in paperback (88 pages, in Portuguese).
Fiction about the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa. In his British-style house, the writer contemplates an island where life happens outdoors and stories are told by word of mouth. Alberto Manguel contrasts European reserve with Samoan uninhibitedness, and Stevenson, known as Tusitala, is pointed out when a crime occurs.
Published in 2000 as the second installment of the Literatura ou Morte collection. Portuguese translation by Paulo Henriques Britto; original title, Stevenson Under the Palm Trees.
Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."
