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CASTELO BRANCO (Camilo). AS POLÉMICAS de Camilo / recolha, prefácio e notas de Alexandre Cabral. Lisboa. s.d. - CASTELO BRANCO (Camilo) AS POLÉMICAS de Camilo / recolha, prefácio e notas de Alexandre Cabral . Lisboa: Portugália Editora, s.d. 4 v.: il.; 215 mm. First edition, complete. Camilo's Polemics constituted an ambitious project among Alexandre Cabral's (1917-1996) Camilian studies, a work of collection, critical edition, and annotation of Camilo Castelo Branco's public debates over more than three decades: from the first journalistic disputes of 1849-1852 – which include the famous polemic with Alexandre Herculano over ”I and the Clergy” – to the later polemics with Silva Pinto (1874) and the Sebenta Question (1883). Throughout his literary life, Camilo was a polemicist of rare effectiveness and virulence, capable of sustaining controversies simultaneously in several periodicals, with a combative prose that became a central part of his public image and his survival strategy as a literary professional. Cabral's collection is instrumental for the study of the literary life and periodical press of nineteenth-century Portugal. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate