(ver série Grandes Livros - BICHOS - Miguel Torga > « "Bichos" de Miguel Torga é um universo desenhado em catorze contos, onde humanos e animais partilham características e também as vicissitudes da vida, colocando questões fundamentais sobre a sociedade e a própria existência. Este clássico da literatura portuguesa, foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1940. Cada um dos catorze contos tem uma um animal humanizado ou um humano que é quase animal e todos vivem em luta com a natureza, Deus ou consigo mesmo. Diferentes entre si nas suas particularidades, estes “bichos”, animais e humanos, estão todos na mesma “Arca de Noé”, a terra mãe, irmanados numa luta igual pela vida e pela liberdade. As suas histórias, apelam à interpretação porque representam dilemas muito humanos mas partilhados quer pelos homens quer pelos animais. O Homem é, neste livro, mais um bicho entre os outros e não ocupa um lugar privilegiado na criação. Para Miguel Torga, a evolução afastou o Homem da natureza, condenando-o à perdição e, viaja com “Bichos” em busca da sua essência selvagem, da pureza dos instintos, pondo em causa Deus, liberdade, sociedade e a relação do individuo com elas.[...] » ver mais at
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Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories, theater and a 16 volume diary. He was born in a village in Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal, to small-time farmer parents. After a short spell as student in a catholic seminary in Lamego, also in Trás-os-Montes, in 1920 his father sent him to Brazil where he worked on the coffee plantation of an uncle who, finding him to be a clever student, paid his high school there and afterwards his medicine graduation (1933) at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal (to where he returns in 1925). After graduation he worked in his village and in other places in the country, publishing his books from his own pocket for a number of years. In 1941, he established himself as an otolaryngologist physician in Coimbra. His agnostic beliefs seems to reflect in his work, that deals mainly with the nobility of the human condition in a beautiful but ruthless world where God is absent or is nothing but a passive and silent, indiferent creator. After the value of his work was being recognized, he went on to receive several awards, as the Prémio Camões in 1989 and the Montaigne award in 1981. He was several times nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature, being the last one in 1994, but he never won. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel\_T...
