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OLIVEIRA (Carlos de) & FERREIRA (José Gomes). CONTOS Tradicionais Portugueses. Porto. s.d. - OLIVEIRA (Carlos de) & FERREIRA (José Gomes) CONTOS Tradicionais Portugueses . Escolhidos e comentados por Carlos de Oliveira e José Gomes Ferreira; prefácio de José Gomes Ferreira; Ilustrações de Maria Keil. Porto: Livraria Figueirinhas, s.d. 4 v.: il.; 250 mm. Expanded reissue of the anthology originally published in installments by Iniciativas Editoriais in 1957-1958. The selection and commentary are by Carlos de Oliveira (Caçador, Brazil, 1921 - Lisbon, 1981), one of the most rigorous poets and prose writers of Portuguese neo-realism, and José Gomes Ferreira (Porto, 1900 - Lisbon, 1985), a poet and memoirist with a vast and unique body of work, whose preface – ironically declaring his disregard for any scientific method in favor of the pure literary pleasure of oral narrative – is itself a reference text. This work brings together a wide selection of tales from the Portuguese oral tradition, chosen and commented on with literary rather than ethnographic criteria, which gives it a distinct character from the academic compilations that preceded it. The 167 illustrations by Maria Keil (Silves, 1914 - Lisbon, 2012), printed in one and two colors, constitute an autonomous graphic corpus of great quality, in which the illustrator's hard and expressive line effectively translates the rural, medieval and superstitious universe of folk tales. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate