Background
Camilo Castelo Branco was born in Lisbon on March 16, 1825. Until the age of eight, when he was orphaned, he lived in Lisbon; then his sister took him to a remote hamlet in Tras-os-Montes. His life there was erratic.
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"O Olho de Vidro" from Camilo Castelo Branco. Escritor português, romancista, cronista, crítico, dramaturgo, historiador, poeta e tradutor (1825-1890).
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"Novelas do Minho" from Camilo Castelo Branco. Escritor português, romancista, cronista, crítico, dramaturgo, historiador, poeta e tradutor (1825-1890).
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Camilo Castelo Branco was born in Lisbon on March 16, 1825. Until the age of eight, when he was orphaned, he lived in Lisbon; then his sister took him to a remote hamlet in Tras-os-Montes. His life there was erratic.
His erratic schooling, continued after marriage, included terms at the polytechnical school and a wild period as a medical student in Oporto; he intrigued, quarreled, conducted spectacular love affairs, and suffered imprisonment for his indiscretions.
Camillo, as he is affectionately known throughout the Portuguese world, produced a prodigious number of works embracing poetry, drama, criticism, translations, stories, romances, novels, and a voluminous personal correspondence; but it is as a novelist or romancer that he won his chief fame and popularity. His numerous fictional pieces display a variety of moods: passionate, sentimental, or satirical, in settings historical as well as contemporary, regional as well as urban. These fictional writings are imitative of other authors, and show the influence first of Romanticism, and later of literary Realism. Their distinctiveness lies in Camillo's style. As a romancer he is at his best when spinning with lively fancy a tale of loves, persecutions, and capricious changes of fortune, as in Os mysterios de Lisboa ("The Mysteries of Lisbon"). Typical of his creation of sentiment and passion is the novel Amor de perdiçãoperdicao ("Doomed Love"). His many Novelas do Minho ("Stories of the Minho") depict vividly, and without sentimental benevolence, scenes of the life of the northernmost province of Portugal. In Eusebio Macario and Brasileira de Prazim he experimented with novelistic realism. Camillo lacked the creative power of a great novelist; but his gift for literary painting was lively, and he delights the reader with his sentiment and inventiveness. Above all he lives as a master of language, in his hands an instrument rich, varied, and plastic, and solidly rooted in the traditions of Portugal.
In his last years he withdrew to the northern province of Minho where, blind and ill, he took his own life June 1, 1890.
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("Amor de Salvação" from Camilo Castelo Branco. Escritor p...)
("O Olho de Vidro" from Camilo Castelo Branco. Escritor po...)
By the age of sixteen he was married, but he soon left his wife, who died in neglect. His second wife was Ana Plácido.