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MENDES (Manuel). PEDRO: Romance dum Vagabundo. Lisboa. s.d. - MENDES (Manuel) PEDRO: Romance dum Vagabundo . Ilustrações de Bernardo Marques. Lisboa: Sociedade de Expansão Cultural, s.d. 228 pp.: il.; 185 mm. First edition. Pedro: Romance dum Vagabundo is the best-known novel by Manuel Mendes (Lisbon, 1906–1969), a writer, sculptor, and anti-fascist resistance fighter linked to the Seara Nova group and figures such as Raul Proença, António Sérgio, and Jaime Cortesão. The work belongs to the Portuguese neo-realist prose movement, following the line of Raul Brandão and Aquilino Ribeiro as a chronicle of daily life and a portrait of social misery, but with a psychological and philosophical dimension that distinguishes it from the more schematic thesis novel. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate