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Publicado pela primeira vez em 1978, a edição que agora se apresenta foi profundamente revista e conta com um prefácio de Jorge Fernandes da Silveira. «Os livros de amor são escritos com uma exterioridade absoluta. Partilham a surpreendente resposta do vegetal à respiração que aflore, ao acto do derrame de águas, indirecto. População de agrários hortícolas e floreiros, há que aguardar aqui com a gentileza tersa do felino que caça levitando sobre folhas, a ameaça tão leve.»

245 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

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Maria Velho da Costa

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With a germanic philology degree, Maria was a high school teacher and member (and later president) of the "Associação Portuguesa de Escritores", the portuguese authors association.

She was deputy secretary of state for culture in 1979 and was second in charge for the cultural theme for Cabo Verde from 1988 to 1991 and now work for the "Instituto Camões" (Camões Institute).

She had regular contribution to movie scripts, particularly in films by João César Monteiro, Margarida Gil and Alberto Seixas Santos.

She was involved in the conception of a controversial book with the title "Novas Cartas Portuguesas" in 1969 with other two authors (Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Isabel Barreno, the three Marias) in wich the plot criticized the traditional position of women in social life and indirectly criticized the fascist government.

Books: Novas Cartas Portuguesas (with Maria Teresa Horta e Maria Isabel Barreno), Irene ou o Contrato Social, O Amante do Crato, O Livro do Meio (com Armando Silva Carvalho)

She won the Vergílio Ferreira prize in 1997 and the Camões Prize in 2002.

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February 27, 2026
(...) The book's initial impression of having three sections requires revision. Upon numerous readings of the text, it becomes clear that it is the product of writing that aims to be read in accordance with the discursive process that drives it. On the one hand, literally, a chain of letters breaks the rhythm of the numerical series, which is then recomposed; the straight-line prose, thus broken, means that the best viewpoint between the beginning and end of the discourse may lie in the interval, the void, the third place which, like a deep cut – "through the desolation of the goat's trail and unscathed in the furrow of the lightning bolt," reads right at the beginning of the journey, in fragment "1." – is inscribed between two full meanings. (...)
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July 22, 2021
"Amantes - Jogai com os números até à exaustão do infinito."
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"Extrema conivência do poeta entre as árvores, essa ascensão lentíssima."
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September 29, 2021
“Amo como o sopro. Porque vos obceca o tangível?”



“Oferece-te onde não possas recusar após desvio, tentativas, tentações. Carne viva, há outra regra?”



“Que nesse dia da noite quando então te assolar a morte como o único sono perfeito, o das herméticas colmeias silvestres, é que eu verei sem qualquer fala que era possível amar-te cordamente.”

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