Bidspirit auction | SANTARENO (Bernardo). TEATRO: A Promessa,

SANTARENO (Bernardo). TEATRO: A Promessa, O Bailarino, A Excomungada. Lisboa. 1957. - SANTARENO (Bernardo) TEATRO: A Promessa, O Bailarino, A Excomungada . Lisboa: ed. autor, 1957. 336 pp.; 195 mm. First edition. This volume brings together Santareno's first three plays: The Promise , The Dancer , and The Excommunicated Woman . The Promise , the most notorious of the three, was withdrawn from the stage after its premiere due to pressure from the Catholic Church on the Salazarist government, immediately becoming a symbol of the censorship that would persecute the author's work. The three plays are the starting point of a dramaturgy that would come to be recognized as one of the most important in 20th-century Portuguese literature. Published in the same year as the poetry collections *Os Olhos da Víbora * and the sea narratives that would feed *Nos Mares do Fim do Mundo * (1959), this play marks Santareno's decisive shift towards drama. Rare and highly sought after. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate