Diário - Volumes XIII a XVI

by Miguel Torga

«Este diário (...) não é uma crónica dos meus dias, mas a parábola deles» Coimbra, 3 de Agosto de 1970. Os Diários de Torga, publicados originalmente em edição de autor, em 16 volumes, constituem o retrato de um homem, de um escritor e de um tempo. Publicados ininterruptamente entre 1941 e 1993, dão-nos uma apaixonante visão do país e da sociedade portuguesa da época, com todas as transformações que ao longo desse tempo a marcaram.

383 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories, theater and a 16 volume diary.

He was born in a village in Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal, to small-time farmer parents. After a short spell as student in a catholic seminary in Lamego, also in Trás-os-Montes, in 1920 his father sent him to Brazil where he worked on the coffee plantation of an uncle who, finding him to be a clever student, paid his high school there and afterwards his medicine graduation (1933) at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal (to where he returns in 1925).

After graduation he worked in his village and in other places in the country, publishing his books from his own pocket for a number of years. In 1941, he established himself as an otolaryngologist physician in Coimbra.
His agnostic beliefs seems to reflect in his work, that deals mainly with the nobility of the human condition in a beautiful but ruthless world where God is absent or is nothing but a passive and silent, indiferent creator.

After the value of his work was being recognized, he went on to receive several awards, as the Prémio Camões in 1989 and the Montaigne award in 1981. He was several times nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature, being the last one in 1994, but he never won.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_T...