"Mudança" - a prophetic title like all those that fit the hour they designate - is a book that opens the way through its construction, a path that is the rupture or, in any case, distrust of the excessively bright light that bathed then our romanesque universe. He opened the doors of his author to ever more lonely and exalting places, as he opened the widening crevice never again healed, to our consolation, in the literature of early evidence, with little place for the united presence of the insufferable and inevitable. Thus, in a somewhat simplistic but significant way, was seen in this novel the passage from the neo-realist atmosphere, rarefied by the ideological obsession, to the existentialist literary adventure, rediscovering in the centre of each man an absence without cure and name. To speak of anguish would be to stay still from the lack that dampens us and sends us back to nothingness.
For those who closely follow the itinerary of Vergílio Ferreira, this increasingly important assumption of ambiguity, as the essence of the human situation and as the fatality of writing that aims at it without ever being able to fix it as it would wish, is not as surprising as it may seem. It has been little noticed, to some extent, that Vergílio Ferreira's unfamiliar démarche is or appears to be that of the pure poet, in short, to the supreme vocation that subordinates the real to the imperious will of the language that transfigures it.
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The ideological plot of Mudança, for the most present it appears to us, comes, at last, with its authentic profile. It is now only almost foam in the flower of the dazzling and gloomy wave of Existence. The unique and obsessive character of Mudança, as the Camonian epigraph of the novel underlines it, is Time, that Death itself is abusive solidification. It was, therefore, with just intuition but a rather timid audacity that the empirical character of Change singled out as one of its particularities.