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149. RODRIGUES, Urbano Tavares. Filipa nesse dia. Mem Martins:
Publicações Europa-América, 1988. Colecção Século XX, 298. 8°, original
illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Author’s seven-line signed
and dated (June 1990) presentation inscription on recto of first leaf to
[Luís Manuel] Monteiro Baptista, a close friend. 107 pp., (3 pp. advt.,
1 l. advt.). $60.00
FIRST and apparently ONLY EDITION of this novella. Chronologically, this book
falls into the third phase of the author’s fiction, marked by a more explicit manifestation
of revolutionary and post-revolutionary ideological conflicts, but it seems to fall back
somewhat to his second phase, characterized by an amplification of the erotic combined
with an increased political conscience.
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.
150. RODRIGUES, Urbano Tavares. As horas e desoras: Aquilino,
Teixeira–Gomes, Redo, Namora, Cardoso Pires, Saramago e outros mais. Lisbon:
Edições Colibri, 1993. Autores Portugueses, 1. Large 8°, original
illustrated wrappers (very slight soiling). A very good copy. Author’s
eleven-line signed (with the author’s rubrication) and dated (Abril ‘94)
presentation inscription on half title to Luís [Manuel] Monteiro Baptista,
a close friend. 154 pp., (2 ll.), footnotes. $60.00
FIRST and apparently ONLY EDITION of these essays, which were awarded
the Prémio Jacinto Prado Coelho (ensaio) by the Associação Internacional de Críticos
Literários. Among the authors treated are Aquilino Ribeiro, Teixeira–Gomes, Redo,
Fernando Namora, Cardoso Pires, and Saramago.
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