Recent Acquisitions - Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

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richard c. ramer
dade de Lisboa, member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, he is the winner of many
literary prizes and a militant communist. His earliest works were greatly influenced by
existentialism, in particular following the literary model of Albert Camus. Simultaneously
they display a certain Portuguese turn-of-the-century decadence, particularly influenced
by Fialho de Almeida (especially obsessive evocations of the Alentejo), António Patrício
and Manuel Teixeira Gomes, authors discussed by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues in critical
essays and later in his doctoral thesis.
Provenance: Luís Manuel Monteiro Baptista (1926-2009), distinguished Portuguese
physician and Communist Party militant, published a number of articles in
scientific journals.
j See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 422-3. Cristina Robalo Cordeiro
in Biblos, IV, 909-13. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 296-8. Jacinto Prado Coelho,
ed., Dicionário de literatura (4th ed.), I, 203; II, 509; III, 954; Actualização, pp. 681-2.
148. RODRIGUES, Urbano Tavares. O eterno efémero, romance. Lisbon:
Publicações Dom Quixote, 2005. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. A
very good copy. Author’s ten-line signed (with the author’s rubric) and
dated (17-2-2006) presentation inscription on half title to [Luís Manuel]
Monteiro Baptista, a close friend. Author’s card (8.4 x 12 cm.) tipped in,
also dated 17-2-2006 and signed with Rodrigues’ rubric, with a further
thirteen-line message beginning “Meu Querido Monteiro Baptista,”
about the book and their friendship. 140 pp., (2 blank ll.). $80.00
FIRST and apparently ONLY EDITION of this novella. It falls into the third phase
of the author’s fiction, marked by a more explicit manifestation of revolutionary and
post-revolutionary ideological conflicts.
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (born Lisbon, 1923) grew up in Moura, in the Alentejo, in
a family of large landowners. Widely acclaimed and prolific author of fiction, researcher,
essayist, literary critic, professor Catedrático jubilado at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade
de Lisboa, member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, he is the winner of many
literary prizes and a militant communist. His earliest works were greatly influenced by
existentialism, in particular following the literary model of Albert Camus. Simultaneously
they display a certain Portuguese turn-of-the-century decadence, particularly influenced
by Fialho de Almeida (especially obsessive evocations of the Alentejo), António Patrício
and Manuel Teixeira Gomes, authors discussed by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues in critical
essays and later in his doctoral thesis.
Provenance: Luís Manuel Monteiro Baptista (1926-2009), distinguished Portuguese
physician and Communist Party militant, published a number of articles in
scientific journals.
j See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 422-3. Cristina Robalo Cordeiro
in Biblos, IV, 909-13. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 296-8. Jacinto Prado Coelho,
ed., Dicionário de literatura (4th ed.), I, 203; II, 509; III, 954; Actualização, pp. 681-2.