The translation, in our view, powerful novel The redhead , written by the Portuguese Fialho de Almeida late nineteenth and published by the Castilian version Peripheral of Antonio Delgado Sáez has recently been awarded the prestigious Prix Giovanni Pontiero Translation, awarded by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Instituto Camões of Portugal. This award is without doubt one of the major translation prizes awarded in Spain, and have earned it so far translations into Castilian or Catalan works as relevant as The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa ) The manual dels inquisidors (António Lobo Antunes), Night noon: poetry anthology (Breyner Melo Sofia) or The will of Mr. Napumoceno (Germano Almeida). this award also implies recognition of a vigorous leadership from peripheral to offer the best possible translations of key authors in their countries of origin. Although some have been "overshadowed" by the passage of time trying to organize Peripheral since its founding two years ago, an organic catalog in which those authors living with other household names without discussion with new authors from both the different European and Latin American literatures. Thus, living in that catalog the Romanian Ana Blandiana, the French and Valerie Odette Mréjen Elina, Portuguese Paulo José Miranda, the French Jules Vallès, Antoine de Rivarol and Benjamin Constant, the English Mary Cholmondeley ... The redhead, first published in 1878, tells the fascinating story of a young daughter of an undertaker, a victim of his desires for love, prosperity and passion. It is without doubt one of the most unique novels to Notre-lives, for their erotic content and social criticism, the li - te-ra-ture of the nineteenth century Portuguese, and was the first masterpiece, unpublished in English until today, Fialho de Almeida, whose books produced in Fernando Pessoa, as told in the Book of Disquiet, "an intangible pleasure."
Some critics consider the Dickens Fialho Portuguese, others the reverse of Eça de Quei-roz, and all the best portrait of the popular Lisbon.
The redhead was defined, being rescued by the prestigious publishing Portugal Assírio & Alvim, as part of a "social histology" similar to those later developed in his novels he also physician and writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
"will be rare that the reader does not stare in awe at the date of publication of the novel, because in these pages, all nineteenth century you will, is a stimulating mix of fury and freedom of speech, need to appoint a reality with total cruelty, which was unknown elsewhere. "(Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz, Abc )," With a master's unusual, you marry the high-flying with apricot flash. In these pages is not avoided the erotic tension, exploitation and sex brings hope in a corrupt and hypocritical society, the painting of the degradation of the poor and the contrast with the showcase of the rich never demagogic, just unbeatable. "(Miguel Bayon, The Country )
José Valentim Fialho de Almeida was born in Vila de Frades in 1857. He studied medicine at the University of Lisbon and was, according to his biographers, a life full of trouble because of financial difficulties suffered by his family and forced him to work at a young age as an assistant chemist. It was a great chronicler of his time and showed as little misery as well known, sometimes in a sarcátisco and cruel, but never forgetting the suffering of others. Even today it is considered a key writer for understanding the complex transition from the XIX to XX in Portugal. Tra-sented in his usually controversial issues, and far ahead of his time, many of them qualified of "morbid." Renewal of prose Portuguese also introduced, nu-me-ous neologisms that were soon adopted by other writers. He died in 1911.
The translator The redhead, Antonio Delgado Sáez (Cáceres, 1970), is a professor at the University of Évora. Specialist in Portuguese literature from the nineteenth to change and critical XX Portuguese and Brazilian literature El País ( Babelia ), is the author of Orphic and ultraists trials. Portugal and Spain in the dialogue of the early avant-garde literary (1915-1925) (2000) and Adriano del Valle and Fernando Pessoa, notes from a friend (2002). He has translated works by, among others, Pascoaes Teixeira, José Luís Peixoto and Manuel António Pina.
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