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Ordens Menores
Um romance de Agustina junta contrários efeitos que se consumam no fenómeno da escrita. É uma prova de boa prosa, de sentimento local e de experiência universal. Portanto, um documento. Ler Agustina é sempre privar com o mistério da pessoa. Não podemos, como ela diz, chegar à essência do negativo, que é o mal, sem passar pela acusação do mistério. De todos os modos, os livros de Agustina são a conformação da negação....
355 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
About the author
Agustina Bessa-Luís
131 books240 followersAgustina Bessa-Luís was born in Vila Meã (Amarante) in 1922. Her father's family was from the north of Portugal and her mother was Spanish.
She lived her childhood and teenagehood in the region of Douro, Minho and then Coimbra in 1948. She married Alberto Oliveira Luís in 1945 and after 1948 she moved to Oporto.
She started writing at the age of 16 and in 1950 she published her first novel, Mundo Fechado. In 1952 her talent was recognized with the award Delfim de Guimarães, for her book Sibila, which also received the award Eça de Queirós the next year.
In 1958, she gave her first steps in theatre, writing the play O inseparável.
Between 1986 and 1987 she was the director of the diary O Primeiro de Janeiro in Oporto. Between 1990 and 1993 she was the director of D.Maria II Theatre in Lisbon and a member of the Alta Autoridade para a Comunicação Social.
She is a member of the Academie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres in Paris, of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, being also recognized at Ordem de Sant'Iago da Espada (1980), Medalha de Honra da Cidade do Porto (1988) and degree of "Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", given by the French government (1989).
Various works have been translated in various countries and some were adapted to the cinema, such as Francisca, Vale Abraão and As Terras de Risco by Manoel de Oliveira. Her novel As Fúrias was adapted to the theatre by Filipe La Féria.
At the age of 81, Agustina Bessa-Luís received the Camões Award, considered the most important portuguese award.
Agustina Bessa-Luís nació en Vila Meã (Amarante, Portugal) en 1922, de madre española y padre portugués. Es miembro de la Academia Europea de las Ciencias, las Artes y las Letras de París, de la Academia Brasileña de las Letras y de la Academia de las Ciencias de Lisboa. Sus numerosos libros le han valido las más importantes distinciones, como la de Santiago da Espada (1980), la Medalla de Honor de la Ciudad de Oporto (1988) o el grado de Oficial de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras del gobierno francés (1989). En 2004 recibió el galardón literario más importante en lengua portuguesa, el Premio Camôes.
She lived her childhood and teenagehood in the region of Douro, Minho and then Coimbra in 1948. She married Alberto Oliveira Luís in 1945 and after 1948 she moved to Oporto.
She started writing at the age of 16 and in 1950 she published her first novel, Mundo Fechado. In 1952 her talent was recognized with the award Delfim de Guimarães, for her book Sibila, which also received the award Eça de Queirós the next year.
In 1958, she gave her first steps in theatre, writing the play O inseparável.
Between 1986 and 1987 she was the director of the diary O Primeiro de Janeiro in Oporto. Between 1990 and 1993 she was the director of D.Maria II Theatre in Lisbon and a member of the Alta Autoridade para a Comunicação Social.
She is a member of the Academie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres in Paris, of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, being also recognized at Ordem de Sant'Iago da Espada (1980), Medalha de Honra da Cidade do Porto (1988) and degree of "Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", given by the French government (1989).
Various works have been translated in various countries and some were adapted to the cinema, such as Francisca, Vale Abraão and As Terras de Risco by Manoel de Oliveira. Her novel As Fúrias was adapted to the theatre by Filipe La Féria.
At the age of 81, Agustina Bessa-Luís received the Camões Award, considered the most important portuguese award.
Agustina Bessa-Luís nació en Vila Meã (Amarante, Portugal) en 1922, de madre española y padre portugués. Es miembro de la Academia Europea de las Ciencias, las Artes y las Letras de París, de la Academia Brasileña de las Letras y de la Academia de las Ciencias de Lisboa. Sus numerosos libros le han valido las más importantes distinciones, como la de Santiago da Espada (1980), la Medalla de Honor de la Ciudad de Oporto (1988) o el grado de Oficial de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras del gobierno francés (1989). En 2004 recibió el galardón literario más importante en lengua portuguesa, el Premio Camôes.
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October 31, 2024
The Roman à Clef Ordens Menores, in which José Régio appears under the name Natan, can be read as an essential hermeneutic key to two other texts by Agustina Bessa-Luís about the author of Vila do Conde, in Portugal.
The novel Ordens Menores delves into the object of Régio's surveillance, his perpetually delayed confession. Published in 1992, twenty-three years after the Vilacondense writer's passing, this temporal gap was crucial for Agustina to develop ideas that were only hinted at in her letters to José Régio and in the article «Passagem sem Ornamento.» One of Agustina's most intense criticisms of José Régio in her letters is his suppression of joy in his art – and perhaps, in life. For Agustina, joy is not just about laughter and good humor but also about brutality and fury, vileness, and not despair.
The novel tells the story of the deep friendship between an old professor and poet Natan and the young and rebellious Luís Matias, in which many of Agustina's characteristics echo. The development of this friendship goes through three phases: the first phase, of closeness and almost falling in love, in which they get to know each other, and Luís Matias is fascinated by the professor's erudition and modest, nearly resigned attitude; a second phase, of withdrawal, in which Luís Matias begins to suspect the professor's provincialism and lack of ambition and appears hurt by the humiliation to which he sometimes subjects him; a third and final phase, in which, after the death of Natan, from whom he had been separated for a long time, Luís Matias recognizes his moral greatness and completes the love he had always had for him. The neophyte's education is, therefore, completed.
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The novel Ordens Menores delves into the object of Régio's surveillance, his perpetually delayed confession. Published in 1992, twenty-three years after the Vilacondense writer's passing, this temporal gap was crucial for Agustina to develop ideas that were only hinted at in her letters to José Régio and in the article «Passagem sem Ornamento.» One of Agustina's most intense criticisms of José Régio in her letters is his suppression of joy in his art – and perhaps, in life. For Agustina, joy is not just about laughter and good humor but also about brutality and fury, vileness, and not despair.
The novel tells the story of the deep friendship between an old professor and poet Natan and the young and rebellious Luís Matias, in which many of Agustina's characteristics echo. The development of this friendship goes through three phases: the first phase, of closeness and almost falling in love, in which they get to know each other, and Luís Matias is fascinated by the professor's erudition and modest, nearly resigned attitude; a second phase, of withdrawal, in which Luís Matias begins to suspect the professor's provincialism and lack of ambition and appears hurt by the humiliation to which he sometimes subjects him; a third and final phase, in which, after the death of Natan, from whom he had been separated for a long time, Luís Matias recognizes his moral greatness and completes the love he had always had for him. The neophyte's education is, therefore, completed.
Source: https://formadevida.org/recensoes/208...
January 14, 2017
"O pecado capital de Sócrates era a vaidade. Toda Atenas sabia isso, e circulavam anedotas mordazes a respeito dessa fraqueza do filósofo".
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