Bidspirit auction | FONSECA (Branquinho da). O BARÃO.

FONSECA (Branquinho da). O BARÃO. Lisboa. s.d. - FONSECA (Branquinho da) O BARÃO . Por António Madeira. Lisboa: Editorial Inquérito, s.d. 72, [8] pp.; 190 mm. - (Novelas Inquérito, n.º 46) First edition of the work considered Branquinho da Fonseca's masterpiece. Published under the pseudonym António Madeira, it was adapted for the theater by Luís de Stau Monteiro. Regarding the work, António Basílio Rodrigues (Biblos, I, col. 533) tells us: “The narrative – organic, dynamic, successive, internal point of view, with the narrator and protagonist being ‘I am an inspector of primary schools’ – begins with a central, short and incisive sentence: ‘I don’t like to travel, ’ reiterated a few lines later. However, the narrator, while reaffirming his intention of physical immobility, [proposes to recount ‘my trip to the Serra do Barroso, ’ a real scene of the action in analepsis. The essential contradictions of the novella involve a mythical perspective of the symbolic dimension, in which the manifest and latent contents develop and reveal the dreamlike atmosphere.” Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate