by Manuel Alegre · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722025874
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«Rafael» is a novel by Manuel Alegre, published by Dom Quixote in 2004 in paperback (253 pages, in Portuguese).
The narrative follows a man who has become clandestine within himself: he goes from house to house and hotel to hotel, changes his name, face and documents, and adopts various pseudonyms. He no longer uses his identity: sometimes he is French, other times Spanish or Algerian, dragging along the others he carries within, like an international brigade.
The novel was published in Lisbon; the cover of this edition indicates it is the 2nd edition. The author, Manuel Alegre, is a Portuguese poet and politician.
Readers of Portuguese fiction interested in stories about identity and clandestine lives.
Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte is a Portuguese poet and politician. He was a candidate to the presidency of the Portuguese Republic in 2006 and 2011, finishing in second place in both elections. For his literary work, he was awarded the Camões Prize in 2017.
