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MONTEIRO (Luís de Sttau). UM HOMEM Não Chora e Outra Novela. Lisboa. 1960. - MONTEIRO (Luís de Sttau) UM HOMEM Não Chora e Outra Novela . Lisboa: Ática, 1960. 172 pp.; 200 mm. This is Sttau Monteiro's first edition and debut novel in fictional prose, published in the same year he began his career as a playwright. This volume brings together two novellas. In *Um Homem não Chora* (A Man Doesn't Cry) , we follow four days in the life of a Lisbon industrialist as he attempts to obtain a divorce from a Catholic marriage contracted after the Concordat – an impossibility that serves as the central point for an ironic and corrosive critique of social hypocrisy and the structures of the Estado Novo (New State). In * Pôr-do-Sol no Areeiro* (Sunset in Areeiro) , a woman from Lisbon's upper bourgeoisie, condemned to isolation by her husband, experiences a brief and ambiguous situation of receiving attention from others. Unusual for the first edition. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate