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192 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2004
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Raul Brandão
65 books93 followersRaul Germano Brandão (Foz do Douro, March 12, 1867 – Lisbon, December 5, 1930) was a Portuguese writer, journalist and military officer, notable for the realism of his literary descriptions and by the lyricism of his speech. Brandão was born in Foz do Douro, a parish of Porto, where he spent the majority of his youth. Born in a family of sailors, the ocean and the sailors were a recurrent theme in his work.
Brandão finished his secondary studies in 1891. After that, the joined the military academy, where he initiated a long career in the Ministry of War. While working in the ministry, he also worked as a journalist and published several books.
In 1896, Brandão was commissioned in Guimarães, where he would know his future wife. He married in the next year and settled in the city. Despite living in Guimarães, Brandão spent long periods in Lisbon. After retiring from the army, in 1912, Brandão initiated the most productive period of his writing career. He died on December 5, 1930, age 63, after publishing a profuse journalistic and literary work.
Published works:
1890 - Impressões e Paisagens
1896 - História de um Palhaço
1901 - O Padre
1903 - A Farsa
1906 - Os Pobres
1912 - El-Rei Junot
1914 - A Conspiração de 1817
1917 - Húmus (1917)
1919 - Memórias (vol. I)
1923 - Teatro
1923 - Os Pescadores
1925 - Memórias (vol. II)
1926 - As Ilhas Desconhecidas
1926 - A Morte do Palhaço e o Mistério da Árvore
1927 - Jesus Cristo em Lisboa, with Teixeira de Pascoaes
1929 - O Avejão
1930 - Portugal Pequenino, with Maria Angelina Brandão
1931 - O Pobre de Pedir
1933 - Vale de Josafat
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Bra...
Brandão finished his secondary studies in 1891. After that, the joined the military academy, where he initiated a long career in the Ministry of War. While working in the ministry, he also worked as a journalist and published several books.
In 1896, Brandão was commissioned in Guimarães, where he would know his future wife. He married in the next year and settled in the city. Despite living in Guimarães, Brandão spent long periods in Lisbon. After retiring from the army, in 1912, Brandão initiated the most productive period of his writing career. He died on December 5, 1930, age 63, after publishing a profuse journalistic and literary work.
Published works:
1890 - Impressões e Paisagens
1896 - História de um Palhaço
1901 - O Padre
1903 - A Farsa
1906 - Os Pobres
1912 - El-Rei Junot
1914 - A Conspiração de 1817
1917 - Húmus (1917)
1919 - Memórias (vol. I)
1923 - Teatro
1923 - Os Pescadores
1925 - Memórias (vol. II)
1926 - As Ilhas Desconhecidas
1926 - A Morte do Palhaço e o Mistério da Árvore
1927 - Jesus Cristo em Lisboa, with Teixeira de Pascoaes
1929 - O Avejão
1930 - Portugal Pequenino, with Maria Angelina Brandão
1931 - O Pobre de Pedir
1933 - Vale de Josafat
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Bra...
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June 30, 2020
Raul Brandao evokes here, in this short book, the dreams of the people of the sea (in this specific case, the fishermen). Raul Brandão inaugurates a form of romanesque writing that, breaking with the linearity of time and narrative syntax, develops in a circular way around symbols and keywords like the tree, dream, pain, astonishment, death. In this context, it is similar to Russian literature, including Dostoyevsky.
He would become one of the writers who, along with Fernando Pessoa, who had more influence in the Portuguese literature of the twentieth century.
He would become one of the writers who, along with Fernando Pessoa, who had more influence in the Portuguese literature of the twentieth century.
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