Noites De Insomnia, Offerecidas a Quem Não Póde Dormir. Nº 10 (de 12)
1874
Noites De Insomnia, Offerecidas a Quem Não Póde Dormir. Nº 10 (de 12)
1874
In the tradition of the great Portuguese Romantic writers, Camilo Castelo Branco weaves a tale of one woman's desperate struggle against the chains of familial duty. Beatriz de Vilalva, a young woman of passion and intelligence, finds herself imprisoned by an arranged marriage to the elderly morgado of Pildre, a union dictated by her father and sanctioned by society's ironclad expectations. Her heart yearns for something more: freedom, true love, the right to shape her own destiny. When Padre João de Queiroz, a young ex-monk whose very existence challenges the moral order, reenters her world, Beatriz faces a choice that will define her soul. Castelo Branco, the man many called Portugal's Balzac, populates this novella with the psychological intensity and moral complexity that made him the era's most electrifying novelist. This is number ten of twelve in the "Noites de Insomnia" collection, a series crafted for readers who, like the author himself, find sleep elusive and seek solace in tales of human longing.
