Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #290059 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

Synopsis
A middle-aged Portuguese journalist descends into isolation and apathy, with World War II looming on the horizon, until he meets a charismatic young man.

Customer Reviews

An Amazing Character Study
Pereira Declares is a delight. It reveals an intense political climate, slowly, in the mirrored time of a character who is outgrowing his old ideas. There is nothing extraneous in the text, and the terseness of its simplicity maintains a tension which pulls you to its inevitable conclusion. What seems accidental becomes part of the wave which carries the main character to a new shorline of his psyche. A novel which explores the impetus which moves us from complacency to action.

Thomas Mann Lives On
This short novel is either very dated. Or it is pastiche.
The Portuguese man of letters who is its hero is very much a figure from between the two word wars. His literary sensibility is his all.But finally the brutalities of Salazar s fascist regime cause him to take an active moral and political stand.
The plot clunks. But even in translation you can tell that it is a very stylishly written piece.