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Hélder Macedo

    January 1, 1935

    Hélder Malta Macedo is a Portuguese poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and literary researcher. His fictional work, including the novel Partes de África, is regarded as one of the most original in contemporary Portuguese literature. He employs narrative techniques to reveal the fictions of memory, exposing the boundary between fact and invention. His writing explores the nature of recollection and reality.

    Život tak krátký na lásku tak dlouhou
    Weiße Flecken von Afrika
    Pedro e Paula
    The Dedalus Book of Portuguese Fantasy
    • 1995

      This fourth volume in the Dedalus European Fantasy series offers a rich feast of bewitched houses, roads that lead nowhere, hanged men who descend from the scaffold in order to help the living, churches buried beneath the sea, and cannibalism. In addition to the well-known masters Eca de Queiroz and Mario de SaCarneiro, contributors include Jose Rodrigues Migueis, Domingo Monteiro, Failho de Almeida, Jose Regio, David Mourao-Ferreira, Alvaro do Carvalhal, Ferreira de Castro, and Almada Negreiros, most appearing for the first time in English translation.

      The Dedalus Book of Portuguese Fantasy