Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira's apolitical languor. Eventually,...
In Portugal, an aging, lonely journalist escapes facing the ominous cloud of Fascism by translating French stories for a weekly newspaper. It is his reluctant awakening that gives the novel its delightful, heroic power.
In Portugal, an aging, lonely journalist escapes facing the ominous cloud of Fascism by translating French stories for a weekly newspaper. It is his reluctant awakening that gives the novel its delightful, heroic power.