Tales: Beasts and Things

Compilation of short stories by Delmira Maçãs, benefactor of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, texts that recount small tales of a popular nature. In this volume of the collection titled Miscellany, Delmira Maçãs shares in a lively, rich, and insightful manner, a set of brief stories that, for the most part, feature popular figures, often from the rural world, describing habits and ways of life in Alto Alentejo, in a narrative punctuated by regionalisms and popular expressions. These fictional writings introduce Delmira Maçãs, a complex and contradictory personality who found in the white of the pages her most stimulating confidant. The books of Delmira Maçãs were published by Santa Casa in 2009, in fulfillment of the testamentary charge stipulated by the benefactor to the Misericórdia de Lisboa, the institution she chose as her heir: the publication of her personal writings, of an autobiographical nature, but also of a religious and literary character. This is a set of 16 volumes, organized into three collections: Biographical Notes – Steps to Death, Dialogue with the Gospels, and Miscellany.

Author: Delmira Maçãs
Collection: Miscellany Collection

Year of publication: 2009
ISBN: 9789728761622