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SANTARENO (Bernardo). OS OLHOS da Víbora. Lisboa. 1957. - SANTARENO (Bernardo) OS OLHOS da Víbora . Lisboa: Casa do Ardina, 1957. 148 pp.; 200 mm. First edition. The Viper's Eyes is the third and final book of poetry by Bernardo Santareno, literary pseudonym of António Martinho do Rosário (Santarém, 1920 - Oeiras, 1980), a psychiatrist trained at the University of Coimbra. Published in the same year he began his dramatic career with the volume Teatro (bringing together A Promessa , O Bailarino and A Excomungada ), this book of verses closes the inaugural poetic cycle – begun with A Morte na Raiz (1954) and Romances do Mar (1955) – in which the themes and obsessions that would come to dominate his dramatic work are already outlined: violent passions, moral transgression, the confrontation between instinct and social order. Santareno would become the greatest Portuguese playwright of the 20th century, with a body of work marked by neo-realism and the denunciation of the Estado Novo regime, which was censored several times by the Salazar regime. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate