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SIMÕES (João Gaspar). CADERNO de Um Romancista. Lisboa. 1942. - SIMÕES (João Gaspar) CADERNO de Um Romancista . Ensaios. Lisboa: Livraria Popular de Francisco Franco, 1942. 308, [4] pp.; 190 mm. First edition. A miscellany of essays on the novel, bringing together personal notes, in-depth studies, and lecture texts on the problems of novelistic creation, with particular emphasis on Eça de Queirós and Camilo. The work is part of Gaspar Simões' intense essayistic and critical activity in the 1940s, a period in which he also published Crítica I (1942) and Eça de Queirós. O Homem e o Artista (1945), consolidating his position as the central figure of Portuguese literary criticism of the Presença generation. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate