Amor De Perdicao (Portuguese Edition) - Softcover

Camilo Castelo Branco

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9789722036825: Amor De Perdicao (Portuguese Edition)

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ISBN 10: 9722036823 ISBN 13: 9789722036825

Publisher: Dom Quixote, 2009

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�O romance escrito em seguimento daquele (O Romance de Um Homem Rico) foi o Amor de Perdi��o. Desde menino ouvia eu contar a triste hist�ria de meu tio paterno Sim�o Ant�nio Botelho. Minha tia, irm� dele, solicitada por minha curiosidade, estava sempre pronta a repetir o facto aligado � sua mocidade. Lembrou-me naturalmente, na cadeia, muitas vezes, meu tio, que ali deveria estar inscrito no livro das entradas no c�rcere e no das sa�das para o degredo. Folheei os livros desde os de 1800 e achei a not�cia com pouca fadiga e alvoro�os de contentamento, como se em minha al�ada estivesse adornar-lhe a mem�ria como recompensa das suas tr�gicas e afrontosas dores em vida t�o breve. Sabia eu que em casa de minha irm� estavam acantoados uns ma�os de pap�is antigos, tendentes a esclarecer a nebulosa hist�ria de meu tio.�

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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 Tr�s-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 Pl�cido, 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 Pl�cido, but then discovered he was losing his vision because of syphillus. Increasingly depressed, Camilo Castelo Branco committed suicide in 1890.

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Text: Portugese

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