Recent Acquisitions - Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

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Fifth edition of the author’s first book of fiction, originally published in 1952. It
contains the preface to the fourth edition, “Perfil de Urbano Tavares Rodrigues” by Fernando
Namora (pp. 11-2), the text of which was originally read in 1974 at the Academia
das Ciências de Lisboa, as well as the preface to the third edition, “Retorno à porta dos
limites” by Armando Ventura Ferreira (pp. 13-8).
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.
156. RODRIGUES, Urbano Tavares. Terra ocupada. Mem Martins:
Publicações Europa-América, 2001. Colecção Livros de Bolso Europa-
América, 628. Small 8°, original illustrated wrappers. A very good
copy. Author’s seven-line signed (with a rubric) and dated (Dec. 2001)
presentation inscription to [Luís Manuel] Monteiro Baptista, a close
friend. 177, (1) pp., (5 ll. advt.). $25.00
Third edition of a text originally published in 1964. These stories constitute part of
the second phase of the author’s fiction, 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.