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This World and the Other

This World and the Other
1971

In the chronicles you can find the embryo of almost everything that grew and prospered afterwards… I now see that, in a non-conscious way, I was already pointing to myself the direction of what my work would be from the end of the 70s onwards.

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Portugal

This World and the Other

2018 (1st edition at Porto Editora; 9th edition)


Language
Portuguese

The calligraphy on the cover is by actress Maria de Medeiros.

Chronicles, what are they? Pretexts, or testimonies?

Chronicles Nobody Bathes Twice in the Same River, A Ilha Deserta, Um Encontro na Praia, and Os Navegadores Solitários included in the work Moby Dick in Lisbon.