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The author's extensive body of work even includes historical novels. What was his conception of the historical novel? For him, this genre was particularly devoted to the study of the physiognomy of an era and of its characteristic personalities, in the multitude of points of view, characters and intentions that they offer. He advocated a certain purity of the genre in his fidelity to historical truth, but at the same time recognised the need for fantasy – more fantasy than in contemporary novels. One example of this is A corte de D.João V (The Court of D. João V), in which he casts a critical eye over the eighteenth century, as a time of frivolity and debauchery, vices and hypocrisies. |
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