The Portuguese Communist Party is, proportionate to the size of the countrys population, one of the largest in the world, certainly in the capitalist world. It must have come as something of a surprise for Portuguese readers to learn that its longtime leader, Alvaro Cunhal, had made a sideline career for himself as a neorealist fiction writer. This book is the first to appear in English. International Publishers, renowned for its historic catalogue of publications of nonfiction, including Marxist theoretical studies, fiction, memoir and poetry, is proud to present this unusual novella as a long overdue expression of gratitude for Alvaro Cunhals self sacrificing leadership of the Portuguese Communists during most of the halfcentury of fascism in his land.Stylistically, Five Days, Five Nights approximates something of the 1940s and 50s noir writers and filmmakers hyperrealist sensibilities, though any direct influence on the writer is not likely, for Cunhal wrote this book while imprisoned in Portugal in the 1950s. He was able to slip it past the censors, who saw little specifically political in it, merely the story of an emigrant escaping the country, a common occurrence at the time. Notably, there is no reference to the Party as such, though readers are welcome to infer its presence in the background.The manuscript of this novella was found in the archives of the Forte de Peniche, where Cunhal had been imprisoned. Cunhal had left it behind when he escaped on January 3,...

Binding: Paperback;84 pages; Publisher: International Publishers; Classification: FA; Weight: 240 g; Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 11

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