Main masterpieces:
- Anátema (1851)
- Mistérios de Lisboa (1854)
- Duas épocas na vida (1854)
- O livro negro do padre Dinis (1855)
- Vingança (1858)
- Carlota Ângela (1858)
- A morta (1860)
- O romance de um homem rico (1861)
- Amor de Perdição (1861)
- Coração, cabeça e estômago (1862)
- Amor de Salvação (1864)
- A Queda dum Anjo (1866)
- A Corja (1880)
The impact of Amor de Perdição
The novel
Novel composed in 1861 by Camilo Castelo
Branco, during the time the
author was arrested for adultery
in Oporto. It has been written based on
an actual episode in the life of
his uncle, Simão Botelho, that would have been told him by an aunt. However,
Camilo’s manipulation and fiction are so
free, that converted the novel into the
most famous sentimental novel of
Portuguese Romanticism.
The plot is ultra-romantic: the protagonists, Simão and Teresa, sons of two enemy families of Viseu, the Botelhos and Albuquerques, fall in love. On Baltasar Coutinho’s advice, cousin and promised to Teresa, Tadeu de Albuquerque decides to send the daughter to the Monchique’s convent, in Oporto. Simão is waiting for them outside Viseu, confronts Baltasar and kills him by shooting, surrendering immediately to justice. Arrested in Oporto, he is sentenced to exile.
The plot is ultra-romantic: the protagonists, Simão and Teresa, sons of two enemy families of Viseu, the Botelhos and Albuquerques, fall in love. On Baltasar Coutinho’s advice, cousin and promised to Teresa, Tadeu de Albuquerque decides to send the daughter to the Monchique’s convent, in Oporto. Simão is waiting for them outside Viseu, confronts Baltasar and kills him by shooting, surrendering immediately to justice. Arrested in Oporto, he is sentenced to exile.
When
embarking for India, Simão can still glimpse his beloved, who
says goodbye to him, almost dying, worn out by
misfortune. Hours later, Simão
becomes aware of the death of Teresa and dies too.
The genuine character of the novel, that breaks with romantic conventionality,
is, however, Mariana, a good and selfless
girl, who, feeling an absolute love
for Simão and
hopeless, acts as intermediary between
Simão and Teresa, deciding to join him in
exile and kill herself after his
death, embracing his dead body thrown overboard.
Besides
the passionate
and tragic story, where love, hate and revenge, in its many nuances appear,
according to some scholars Camilo also intended to do a social
criticism, namely report the society’s blind obedience to the obsolete prejudice of family honor.
The movie
Amor de Perdição has been adapted in 1978 into a movie directed by Manoel de Oliveira, who won the Jury's Special Award at the Festival of Figueira da Foz.
Main cast was composed of: Adelaide João; António Sequeira Lopes; Cristina Hauser; Elsa
Wallencamp; Duarte de Almeida; Henrique Viana; Lia Gama; Manuela de
Freitas; Ruy Furtado.
Pedro Bandeira Freire and Manoel de Oliveira and an excerpt.
Prod. CPC – Centro Português do Cinema, 1978
Consulted sources:
Portal da Literatura Portuguesainfopédia_CamiloCasteloBranco
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