O cinema de Fernando Namora

This article focuses on Fernando Namora´s long relationship with cinema, carrying out an inventory and study of nine film projects in which the writer was directly involved as screenwriter. Although they have not been produced, due to financial issues, censorship and other problems, these projects attest to the importance of cinema, and of film language, in Namora´s work, of which the script for O Rio Triste (preceding the novel) is a major example. In addition to these, Namora has had, during his lifetime, six feature films adapted to cinema or television, and he was the subject of five documentaries.

Uma voz profética ou «O segredo de olhar o sol de frente»: A Juventude na obra de Fernando Namora

This essay explores fictional representations of young adulthood in the novel As Sete Partidas do Mundo (Seven Departures from the World), set in the second half of the 1930s and the first years of the 1940s. These years coincide with the period of consolidation for the neo-realist generation from the city of Coimbra. “Youth”, as omnipresent theme and represented experience in the writing by Fernando Namora, becomes the metaphor for future cultural fissures between tradition and innovation.

Dois médicos na marginal de Gaia

The author reflects on his underlines in Estamos no Vento, by Fernando Namora. It underlines their timeliness, in a brief analysis of contemporary society. .It follows a dialogue with the physician/ writer / artist Namora with Porto in the background, in a drift that flows into the love shared by the work of Serge Reggiani.

Fernando Namora e a Pintura

This text discusses paintings by Fernando Namora, a craft he never abandoned although he kept it private. This aspect of his creative works has been virtually forgotten, to the extent that it is a surprise to discover the extent of his dedication and authenticity. First, we clarify our conceptual frame and then we present the set of paintings which are part of the collection of Casa Museu Fernando Namora; Finally, through dance, we experiment a dialogue between two of his works: Estudo/ Study (1944/45) and Auto-retrato/ Self-portrait (1947).

Desvendar, esclarecer - Literatura e Medicina em Fernando Namora

Through a study of the “book” Deuses e demónios da medicina, by Fernando Namora, this essay explores the critical dialogue between the author/doctor and his works, seeking a broad convergence between the fields of medicine and literature. The discussion of several books by the author, by way of analogies or dissonances, will highlight the unity that underlies his evolutionary path as one of great coherence. Accordingly, the twenty-one “romanticized biographies” of doctors, which constitute the referred book, testify to particular plot building strategies which can be found in the entire work of the writer, doctor and intellectual.

"Balada dos maus pensamentos" e outros poemas

This piece of writing answers creatively to the question of how literature and medicine can be interrelated. Combining medical practice and poetry writing, the selected poems address the interruption of life through poetry, on the one hand, and the contamination of poetry by death, illness, pain and aging, on the other.

Inspiração e transfusão

In this essay, we consider the experience of a doctor/ writer, thinking through the ways in which literature and medicine complement each other for an enhanced perception of human beings. The humanist dimension of Medicine is thus stressed, despite the technological and bureaucratic paraphernalia of current medical activity. Several answers are suggested for many of the questions that such topic raises: what makes doctors write? What do they write about? Where does their inspiration come from? In the end, an irrefutable conclusion is reached: Medicine and Literature are two of the most beautiful arts in the world.

Fernando Namora - Autoscopia e pena-estetoscópio

In this essay, Fernando Namora´s medical activity is seen as a source of literary material. From that, the writer absorbs the experiences of both the sick people and the doctor himself, who tends, cathartically, to confession and autoscopy. Discussing the vast work of the novelist, the text presents the ways in which the author of Retalhos da Vida de um Médico expresses life, always from the confrontation with the world, as well as the constant dialogues of the intellectual with his time, which would, in large part, catalyze the evolution of contemporary Portuguese fiction.