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Rampa. Poemas de Adolpho Rocha.

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Rampa. Poemas de Adolpho Rocha.

by [TORGA, Miguel, pseudonym of Adolfo Rocha]

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Coimbra, Edições "Presença", 1930.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4° (25.3 x 19.5 cm.), original printed wrappers (slight defects at head and foot of spine, slight fraying at outer edges). Printer's device in red on verso of half-title. Title page printed in red and black. Uncut. Some fraying to edges of covers; slight defects to head and foot of spine. Nevertheless, in very good condition overall. Author's signed and dated six-line presentation inscription on recto of [blank] leaf following the title-page: "Meu Caro Álvaro [Taveira], Meu Amigo: // Sem [illeg.] com um abraço // [illeg.] ofº seu // Adolpho Rocha // Coimbra 26 de Abril de // 1930." The colophon of this book is dated 24 de Abril de 1930! Extra-illustrated with a photograph of the author (4.25" x 3.125"), signed Adolpho Rocha, tipped onto verso of title-page. (1 blank l.), 76 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of Torga's second book, one of his rarest and one of the few early works published under his real name. Among the most important Portuguese authors of the twentieth century (“figura cimeira das Letras portuguesas” - Grande enciclopédia, Actualização, X, 397), the physician Adolfo Rocha (1907-1995) was at the center of the "Grupo Presença". The Grande enciclopédia states: "Em 1930 dá luz Rampa, padrão de arrojo literário seguido de Tributo (1931), Abismo (1932) e O outro livro de Job (1936; 3ª ed. 1951), todos de grande audácia formal e revelando um pensamento agreste e inconformista que chamou sobre si a atenção dos críticos e do público, uns e outros divididos quanto à adesão aos cânones literários impostos pelo autor, mas todos, unânimemente, reconhecendo o valor ímpar que se revelava na sua obra dentro da moderna literatura portuguesa." Saraiva and Lopes comment that his poetry reflects "ainda as apreensões, esperanças e angústias do seu tempo, dentro de um ângulo individualista e, no fundo, religioso de visão, e a sua pureza e originalidade rítmicas, a coerência orgânica das suas imagens impõem-se …" (História da literatura Portuguesa [17th ed., 2001], p. 1015). Provenance: Álvaro Taveira was one of Torga's closest friends. He was publisher of the important review Manifesto, which appeared in Coimbra in five issues, from January 1936 to July 1938, edited by Torga and Albano Nogueira. *** Almeida Marques 2271. Serpa 1266. On Torga, see also Magalhães Gonçalves, Ser e ler Torga; Casais Monteiro, "Miguel Torga - O outro Livro de Job," in Poesia portuguesa contemporânea, p. 235-38; Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 476-7; Eloísa Álvarez in Biblos, V, 461-7; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 335-42; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), pp. 1012, 1014-5, 1020, 1038, 1116, 1125, and 1146; and Grande enciclopédia XXXII, 105. Porbase locates three copies at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one each at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Universidade de Coimbra. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) repeats Porbase. NUC: IU, MoU, WU.

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Title
Rampa. Poemas de Adolpho Rocha.
Author
[TORGA, Miguel, pseudonym of Adolfo Rocha]
Book Condition
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FIRST and ONLY EDITION
Publisher
Coimbra, Edições "Presença", 1930.
Weight
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Keywords
Portuguese literature, poetry, poems, verse, author's signed presentation copies,inscribed copies, modernism, Portugal, ABAA-BIB-WEEK

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