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LUÍS (Agustina Bessa). MUNDO Fechado. Coimbra. 1948. - LUÍS (Agustina Bessa) MUNDO Fechado . Coimbra: Mensagem, 1948. 174 pp.; 195 mm. First edition. Mundo Fechado (Closed World) is Agustina Bessa-Luís's debut novel, written in Coimbra and typed at her father's initiative. The author sent copies to Aquilino Ribeiro, Ferreira de Castro, Miguel Torga, and Teixeira de Pascoaes, who responded with an enthusiastic letter of praise for the ”sketched figure of the main character” and the ”clear depiction of the landscapes.” The novella narrates Pedro's return to a rural farm, where contact with a simple and resigned feminine universe—his aunts Rita and Maria, the weaver Teresa, the figure of Estrelinha—confronts him with an unattainable inner world: that of the ”simple in suffering, the peacefully defeated.” Six years separate this book from A Sibila (The Sibyl) (1954), the novel that earned the author full recognition and two literary prizes. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate