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RIBEIRO (Aleixo). BÚSSOLA Doida. Lisboa. [1938]. - RIBEIRO (Aleixo) BÚSSOLA Doida . Romance. Lisboa: Edições Europa, [1938]. 272, [2] pp.; 195 mm. (Colecção de Autores Modernos Portugueses) First edition. Written in 1932 and published in 1938 in the short-lived Collection of Modern Portuguese Authors, directed by João Gaspar Simões – the same collection that, in the same year, published Almada Negreiros's * Nome de Guerra * – * Bússola Doida* is the second and last novel by Aleixo Ribeiro (Joaquim Aleixo Ribeiro, 1896-1967), an author with a symbolist background and close to the *Presença* movement. The novel went unnoticed upon publication and remained forgotten for decades: a unique work in the landscape of Portuguese psychological novels of the time, it combines a story of love and indifference with a treatment of consciousness and subjectivity in which later criticism identified affinities with the stream-of-consciousness technique. It was reissued in 2009 by Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, restoring it to the attention of readers. Rare and sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate