Amor de Perdição: Memórias duma Família (Coleção Camiliana) (Portuguese Edition) - Softcover

Castelo Branco, Camilo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1494261626 ISBN 13: 9781494261627

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

«O romance escrito em seguimento daquele (O Romance de Um Homem Rico) foi o Amor de Perdição. Desde menino ouvia eu contar a triste história de meu tio paterno Simão António Botelho. Minha tia, irmã dele, solicitada por minha curiosidade, estava sempre pronta a repetir o facto aligado à sua mocidade. Lembrou-me naturalmente, na cadeia, muitas vezes, meu tio, que ali deveria estar inscrito no livro das entradas no cárcere e no das saídas para o degredo. Folheei os livros desde os de 1800 e achei a notícia com pouca fadiga e alvoroços de contentamento, como se em minha alçada estivesse adornar-lhe a memória como recompensa das suas trágicas e afrontosas dores em vida tão breve. Sabia eu que em casa de minha irmã estavam acantoados uns maços de papéis antigos, tendentes a esclarecer a nebulosa história de meu tio.»

About this title

About the Author:

Like the characters in many of his own novels, Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco (1825-1890) lived a dramatic life full of tribulations. Born illegitimate and listed as the child of an 'unknown mother,' he was raised by his aunt and sister in rural Trás-os-Montes. Married at 16, he abandoned his new wife a short time later. He seduced a woman at 21 and was then arrested for bigamy and left her. By 1848, Camilo was living by his work as a journalist and had started writing the romantic novels that made him popular. When Camilo found the love of his life, Ana Plácido, in 1850, she was married to another. After a stint in a seminary, where he had an affair with a nun and tried to commit suicide, he finally convinced Ana to leave her husband in 1852. After they were both arrested for adultery, they were able to begin their life together. They had two children, both of whom suffered from health problems. In order to meet his financial obligations, Camilo turned to! writing novels full time, becoming the first Portuguese writer to live from his writing. In 1888, he was finally able to marry Ana Plácido, but then discovered he was losing his vision because of syphillus. Increasingly depressed, Camilo Castelo Branco committed suicide in 1890.

Language Notes:

Text: Portugese

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1494261626
• ISBN 13: 9781494261627
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172