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The Farce

by M. Smouch , Raul Brandão
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798199853828
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 164
  • Original Price: GBP 12.64
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 205 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical / 19th Century / General

Amazon Book Description - The Farce by Raul Brand�o
In The Farce, Raul Brand�o transforms a provincial Portuguese town into a stage of grief, hypocrisy, poverty, religious fear, social cruelty, and spiritual anguish. Around a deathbed, a coffin shop, old women wrapped in ritual piety, and ruined lives consumed by resentment, Brand�o builds one of the most haunting psychological landscapes in Portuguese literature.
At the center of the novel stands Candidinha, a woman shaped by humiliation, hunger, envy, and a lifelong thirst for revenge. Around her move Sofia, Anacleto, Joana, Antoninho, and a gallery of grotesque yet profoundly human figures, each trapped between misery and illusion. Brand�o's prose is intense, atmospheric, and visionary: fog, granite, rain, death, silence, and despair become living presences.
First published in the early twentieth century, The Farce is not merely a social novel. It is a dark meditation on the masks people wear, the violence hidden beneath respectability, and the tragic comedy of human existence. This English translation brings to modern readers a powerful work of Portuguese literary modernism, preserving the author's dense imagery, moral intensity, and unforgettable voice.
For readers of Dostoevsky, E�a de Queir�s, Camilo Castelo Branco, Jos� Saramago, and European psychological fiction, The Farce offers a disturbing, poetic, and deeply original encounter with the human soul.

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