The Poor aphorisms Translated By Elizabeth Heighway

Translated By Elizabeth Heighway

The author of more than twenty novels

The Major and the Candy

Following his short story collection

Writers exposes a chaotic reality in which self expression elicits repercussions both absurd and frighteningly familiar

The Poor aphorisms Translated By Elizabeth HeighwayThe Poor (Os Pobres, 1906), by Portuguese author Raul Brando, is a powerful tribute to the underclasses. Inno vative thematically and stylistically, the novel consists of loosely connected vignettes on two narrative levels: the lives of prostitutes, where the inexorable need for love is transformed into a means for survival; and the life of Gebo, a seemingly slovenly man, with neither sentiment nor intelligence. The Poor (Os Pobres, 1906), by