by Raul Brandão · Relógio D'Água · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896415150
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«Húmus» is the poetic novel by Raul Brandão, published by Relógio D'Água in paperback (264 pages, in Portuguese).
Structured as a fragmentary diary, the book alternates the portrayal of daily life in a small town with reflections on pain, death and creation. Brandão conceives pain as the foundation of creation and an invisible bond linking every being to the universe, in a poetic prose outside traditional genres.
Work originally published in 1917; this edition is part of Relógio D'Água's Complete Works (volume X), edited and introduced by Maria João Reynaud.
For readers of Portuguese literature and philosophical, introspective narrative from the early twentieth century.
Raul Germano Brandão was a Portuguese writer, journalist and military officer, notable for the realism of his literary descriptions and by the lyricism of his language. Brandão was born in Foz do Douro, a parish of Porto, where he spent the majority of his youth. Born in a family of sailors, the ocean and the sailors are recurring themes in his work.
