Bidspirit auction | MENDES (Manuel). ESTRADA. Lisboa. 1952.

MENDES (Manuel). ESTRADA. Lisboa. 1952. - MENDES (Manuel) ESTRADA . Lisboa: Sociedade de Expansão Cultural, 1952. 190, [4] pp.;195 mm. First edition, with cover by Manuel Ribeiro de Pavia. Estrada is part of a collection of short stories by Manuel Mendes (Lisbon, 1906-1969), a central figure of neo-realism, writer, sculptor and anti-fascist resistance fighter who regularly contributed to publications such as Seara Nova , Vértice and Primeiro de Janeiro . The work emerges during the same period in which Mendes was developing the Bairro trilogy and an intense essayistic activity on visual arts. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate