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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.
159. RODRIGUES, Urbano Tavares. A vaga de calor. Mem Martins:
Publicações Europa-América, 1987. Colecção Século XX, 268. 8°, original
illustrated wrappers. A good to 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. 117 pp., (1 l. advt.).
$25.00
Third edition of these stories, first published in 1986, awarded the Prémio da Crítica
do Centro Português da Associação Internacional dos Críticos Literários. This book is
part of 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.
160. RODRIGUES, Urbano Tavares, and António Homem Cardoso.
A luz da cal: itinerário alentejano. Ponta Delgada: Journal de Cultura /
Editorial Éter, 1996. Colecção Lugares. Very large 4° (32.8 x 27.8 cm.),