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 | | Such writers include many who have since disappeared, although until quite recently they represented important influences on the Portuguese intellectual scene, with their manifold personalities and diversified talent, generally committed to forging an alliance, and sometimes a conflict, between poetic labours and concrete existence, and to reaffirming literature’s lucid (i.e. |
| | The same direction was followed by the leading writers of contemporary poetry (themselves promoters, albeit of other forms of literary expression), amongst whom the most important are António Ramos Rosa, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Eugénio de Andrade and Herberto Helder. |
| | These dedicate themselves to a type of fiction that reworks the traditional novel and short story, bringing them closer to other genres (chronicles, poems in prose and other types of writing extraneous to normal literary conventions), experimenting with new forms for the expression of narrative discourse. |
| www.instituto-camoes.pt /cvc/literatura/eng/visgenerica.htm (894 words) |
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