Nuno Bragança

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Nuno Bragança
(1929-1985)

He published what proved to be a decisive book for Portuguese literary modernity, A Noite e o Riso, 1969, allying surrealist experience to certain trends in the French “nouveau roman”, and developing a personal experience of education and the bohemian life.

He established a reputation for himself as a novelist (Square Tolstoi, 1981) and a short story writer (Estação, a work published posthumously), in which his main theme was human disquietude, expressed through urban, political, militant and erotic meanderings, insisting on the social component of the intimate disconnectedness of values and feelings.

I am sitting in a dance hall and I have the hand. Still around a drink of air pressure.

Sometimes, it happens in a place like this and at a time like this that original sin has melted in a shaker, bringing an end to infant mortality and the Police. I feel this harmony. Upon tired shoulders, like a shawl with the lightness of a cat’s sigh. Through the lights on the tables and the smoke in our eyes trot the most precise piano notes.

A Noite e o Riso (excerpt)