by Raul Brandão · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725681312
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«Os Pescadores» is the book of chronicles by Portuguese writer Raul Brandão, published by Verbo in paperback (184 pages, in Portuguese).
Chronicles portraying the difficult way of life of Portuguese fishermen from the Minho to the Algarve, with stops in communities such as Caminha, Nazaré, Peniche or Olhão. The author describes landscapes, people and situations with sympathy for their work, combining typical speech, picturesque sayings and almost poetic descriptions in an impressionistic style.
Work originally published in 1923; this Verbo edition includes an introduction by Isabel Pascoal.
For readers interested in Portuguese literature and in the social portrait of the country's fishing communities.
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.
