Aventuras de Basílio Fernandes Enxertado

by Camilo Castelo Branco

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Genres: Portuguese Literature

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1863

About the author

«Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco (1825-1890) foi um dos escritores mais prolíferos e marcantes da literatura portuguesa contemporânea tendo sido romancista, cronista, crítico, dramaturgo, historiador, poeta e tradutor. Teve uma vida atribulada, que lhe serviu muitas vezes de inspiração para as suas novelas. Foi o primeiro escritor de língua portuguesa a viver exclusivamente do que escrevia. Durante quase 40 anos, entre 1851 e 1890, escreveu à pena, logo sem qualquer ajuda mecânica, mais de duzentas e sessenta obras, com a média superior a 6 por ano. Prolífico e fecundo escritor, deixou obras de referência na literatura lusitana. Apesar de toda essa fecundidade, Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco não permitiu que a intensa produção prejudicasse a sua beleza idiomática ou mesmo a dimensão do seu vernáculo, transformando-o numa das maiores expressões artísticas e a sua figura num mestre da língua portuguesa.»
Fonte; http://www.luso-livros.net/biografia/...


Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco (1st Viscount de Correia Botelho), was born out of wedlock and orphaned in infancy. He spent his early years in a village in Trás-os-Montes. He fell in love with the poetry of Luís de Camões and Manuel Maria Barbosa de Bocage, while Fernão Mendes Pinto gave him a lust for adventure, but Camilo was a distracted student and grew up to be undisciplined and proud.

He intermittently studied medicine and theology in Oporto and Coimbra and eventually chose to become a writer. After a spell of journalistic work in Oporto and Lisbon he proceeded to the episcopal seminary in Oporto in order to study for the priesthood. During this period Camilo wrote a number of religious works and translated the work of François-René de Chateaubriand. Camilo actually took minor holy orders, but his restless nature drew him away from the priesthood and he devoted himself to literature for the rest of his life. He was arrested twice, the second time due to his adulterous affair with Ana Plácido, who was married at the time. During his incarceration he wrote his most famous work "Amor de Perdição" and later it inspired his "Memórias do Cárcere" (literally "Memories of Prison"). Camilo was made a viscount (Visconde de Correia Botelho) in 1885 in recognition of his contributions to literature, and when his health deteriorated and he could no longer write, Parliament gave him a pension for life. Going blind (because of syphilis) and suffering from chronic nervous disease, Castelo Branco committed suicide in 1890.

Reviews

[Nuno · Rating 5 out of 5]

BRILHANTE, HILARIANTE E PORTADOR DO VIRTUOSISMO DA LINGUAGEM

Quem conhece a obra de Camilo Castelo Branco saberá bastamente da qualidade e música da sua prosa, e do humor especialmente rendilhado que surge das frases, sem deixar de dizer o que tem a dizer e colocar os pontos de vista das suas sátiras e reflexões sobre verdades tão mundanas como todos nós.
É um livro que se lê com o gosto que se teria a degustar um prato minuciosamente composto, mas sem deixar de parte a criatividade e a intenção de mexer connosco.
As desventuras de Basílio e Etelvina deixam-nos com o riso quase constante, enquanto pensamos na actualidade de tanto do que é dito num livro do Sec XIX.
Apetece sublinhar todo o livro, partilhar numa sala cheia alguns dos parágrafos de denuncia bem humorada da pequenina humanidade que Camilo tão bem conhece e sobre a qual não tergiversa num termo que seja.
A ler. E rir. E saborear as palavras de um virtuoso que gostava, mas também conhecia muito bem o nosso país e pessoas.
Brilhante e hilariante, repito.
5 estrelas.

NAJ ™ – 11/02/2026 – Estações Diferentes™
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BRILLIANT, HILARIOUS, AND A VIRTUOUS LANGUAGE

Anyone familiar with the work of Camilo Castelo Branco will know the quality and musicality of his prose, and the particularly intricate humor that emerges from his sentences, without failing to say what he has to say and to present the viewpoints of his satires and reflections on truths as mundane as all of us.

It is a book that is read with the pleasure one would have in savoring a meticulously prepared dish, but without neglecting creativity and the intention to stir us up.

The misfortunes of Basílio and Etelvina leave us with almost constant laughter, while we consider the relevance of so much of what is said in a 19th-century book.

One feels like underlining the entire book, sharing in a crowded room some of the paragraphs of humorous denunciation of the petty humanity that Camilo knows so well and about which he does not equivocate in a single word.

To read. And laugh. And to savor the words of a virtuoso who liked, but also knew very well, our country and its people.

Brilliant and hilarious, I repeat.

5 stars.