Research Catalog

Title

Stormy isles : an Azorean tale / Vitorino Nemésio ; edited, translated, annotated, and introduced by Francisco Cota Fagundes.

Author

Nemésio, Vitorino, 1901-1978

Publication

Dartmouth, Massachusetts : Tagus Press, Gavea-Brown Publications, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Fagundes, Francisco Cota

Description

xxxv, 386 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This book, originally published in Portuguese in 1944 and set in the Azores between 1917 and 1919, focuses on the vivacious and sharp Margarida, who, at twenty years of age, is a model of feminist aspirations, and the paragon of her generation. A member of the elite, she foregoes some of the entitlements of her class and struggles with the morals of the bourgeois society in which her life unfolds. Narrated in realist and poetic language as a series of interconnected tales within a larger tale, this book provides a rich, vivid portrait of the Azores in the early twentieth century.

Series Statement

Bellis Azorica series

Uniform Title

• Mau tempo no canal. English
• Bellis Azorica series.

Alternative Title

Mau tempo no canal.

Subject

• Women > Azores > Fiction
• Azores > Fiction
• Azores

Genre/Form

Fiction.

Contents

Introduction -- Selected bibliography -- Cast of characters -- The blind serpent -- The awakening -- A united family -- Nocturne -- A spider and a web -- Another spider and another web -- Bad tactic -- Schermo -- Encounters -- Second nocturne -- The living and the dead -- The spider's iris -- Feria sexta in parasceve -- The fine art of letter writing -- Carnet mondain -- The witch of spades -- Third nocturne (metapsychics) -- "When flowers are in bloom" -- "Cucumaria abyssorum," Théel -- The spiders closed their webs -- A pigeon shooting -- Fourth nocturne (lento) -- Fire! -- Smoldering debris -- A whalemen's tavern -- An embroidered tablecloth -- Peopled solitude -- Arctic Ocean (in the Portuguese of Pico: arióche) -- Baracole -- Fifth nocturne (in a cave) -- The ballad of the living dead -- Pastoral -- Lullaby -- Sixth nocturne (full moon) -- New and ancient methods of rescuing the shipwrecked -- Summer farewells -- Epilogue (andante, poi allegro, non troppo) -- Notes.

Call Number

JFE 19-8332

ISBN

• 1933227877
• 9781933227870

OCLC

1066178942

Author

Nemésio, Vitorino, 1901-1978, author.

Title

Stormy isles : an Azorean tale / Vitorino Nemésio ; edited, translated, annotated, and introduced by Francisco Cota Fagundes.

Publisher

Dartmouth, Massachusetts : Tagus Press, Gavea-Brown Publications, [2019]

Edition

Second edition, completely revised.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bellis Azorica series

Bellis Azorica series.

Added Author

Fagundes, Francisco Cota, editor, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-8332