Bidspirit auction | RIBEIRO (Afonso). POVO. Porto. 1947.

RIBEIRO (Afonso). POVO. Porto. 1947. - RIBEIRO (Afonso) POVO . Contos. Porto: Editorial Ibérica, 1947. 268, [4] pp.; 195 mm. First edition, with cover by Júlio Pomar. *Povo* (People) brings together short stories with rural and working-class themes, denouncing the living conditions of the working classes and exploitation by landowners, in a line of social intervention characteristic of neo-realism. The work was banned by the censorship of the Estado Novo regime; the censor in charge noted in the report ”pure communist propaganda, ” and it was seized without ever having been freely circulated. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate