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8°, original illustrated wrappers (slightly sunned; very small nick at foot of spine). In good condition; internally very good to fine. Author's signed presentation inscription on half title: "Para a grande contista // Judite de Carvalho (parabéns // pelo seu último livro!) e // o admirável escritor // Urbano Tavares Rodrigues // dois amigos que sinto verdadeiros, // talentosos e bons e que tanto // me ajudam a passar estes // horriveis anos do fim do Século XX // Com a simpatia de // Zé Gomes". 233 pp., (3 ll.). *** Third edition of this collection of stories. First published 1950. The second edition appeared in 1961.José Gomes Ferreira (Porto, 1900-Lisbon, 1985), major poet, author of fiction, essays, and memoirs, was Consûl of Portugal in Kristiansund, Norway, from 1926 to 1930. Influenced by Leonardo Coimbra, he published his first two books of poems in 1918 and 1921, but he found his voice as a poet with the publication in the review Presença, 1931, of his poem "Viver sempre também cansa". Provenance: Maria Judite de Carvalho [Tavares Rodrigues, Lisbon, 1921-Lisbon,1998], also a multi-prize-winning author, met Urbano Tavares Rodrigues in 1944. They married in 1949. After spending time in Montpellier and Paris, she returned to Portugal, where she worked as secretary for the feminist magazine Eva. Carvalho published her first short story there in 1949, and beginning, in 1953, her "Crónicas de Paris". She rose to the rank of editor, then editor-in-chief, continuing to contribute to the magazine until its demise in 1974. In 1968 she became an editor for Diário de Lisboa, where she worked until her retirement in 1986, while publishing "crónicas" in its pages. She also published crónicas in O Jornal that were collected under the title Este tempo in 1991, and won the Prémio da Crónica A.P.E. See Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 106-7; Paulo Morão in Biblos, I, 1020-2; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 124-7.Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (Lisbon, 1923-Lisbon 2013) grew up in Moura, in the Alentejo, in a family of large landowners, and eventually became a militant communist. He was a widely acclaimed and prolific author of fiction, researcher, essayist, literary critic, professor Catedrático jubilado at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, and recipient of many literary prizes. His earliest works were greatly influenced by existentialism, in particular following the literary model of Albert Camus. Simultaneously they display a certain Portuguese turn-of-the-century decadence, particularly influenced by Fialho de Almeida (especially obsessive evocations of the Alentejo), António Patrício and Manuel Teixeira Gomes, all of whom were discussed by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues in critical essays and later in his doctoral thesis. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 422-3; Cristina Robalo Cordeiro in Biblos, IV, 909-13; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 296-8; Jacinto Prado Coelho, ed., Dicionário de literatura (4th ed.), I, 203; II, 509; III, 954; Actualização, pp. 681-2.*** See Fernando J.B. Martinho in Machado, ed., in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 187-8; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 59-62.; and Rosa Maria Goulart, in Biblos, II, 537-9. Seller Inventory # 42484
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