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MIGUEL TORGA

(Poet and writer of prose - 1907-1995)

Miguel Torga is the pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha, a Portuguese writer born in Trás-os-Montes, a remote, desolate, poor region of the country, a place from which many natives were to emigrate in search of a better future. Miguel Torga became known first through the transcendent beauty of his poems, but his literary work also includes diaries and short stories. The last is the case of "Tales from the Mountain," a collection of short stories focused on the way of life and the people of his native land. Miguel Torga remained throughout his life sentimentally rooted to this region, he created a myth of Trás-os-Montes, a lost paradise of his early childhood, a place he was forced to leave but whose prints remained forever embedded in his mind.

These short stories have a "universal regionalism" which becomes more poignant if the reader has been to "Trás-os-Montes." Narration is in the third person, and in a tragic tone the author laments for the life of those who have been left alone to face their relentless destiny.

IN: http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1QC2BOU3AL7L8/103-9653074-3623011?_encoding=UTF8&display=public&page=5

Links:

Biography: http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/miguel_torga2.htm

Biography I: http://www.hku.hk/portugal/culture/books/miguel.htm

Collection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Torga

Ecology and human diversity in Miguel Torga’s literary work “Portugal”: http://www.bath.ac.uk/education/eu/torga.htm