Bidspirit auction | SOROMENHO (Castro). CALENGA: Contos. Lisboa.

SOROMENHO (Castro). CALENGA: Contos. Lisboa. 1945. - SOROMENHO (Castro) CALENGA: Contos . ilustrações de Manuel Ribeiro Pavia. Lisboa: Editorial Inquérito, 1945. 232, [8] pp.: il.; 195 mm. First edition. Calenga brings together short stories and narratives with Angolan themes – two substantial texts dominate the volume: ”Calenga and the Legend of the Rivers of Love and Death” and ”Lueji and Ilunga in the Land of Friendship” – with a preface by the ethnologist and sociologist Arthur Ramos. The work, illustrated on the cover and inside with color compositions by Manuel Ribeiro de Pavia, is part of the intermediate phase of Castro Soromenho's production: after the books of ethnographic and colonial leanings that won awards in the regime's competitions, but before the novel Terra Morta – completed in that same year of 1945 and banned from publication by the Censorship Commission, with the note ”Cannot enter the market” recorded in Calenga's own bibliography. Sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate