Warrior suits

 “It is not the first time someone has taken up a pen to write these words: times have changed.”

This work speaks of the perception of changing times. Shepherds, men of letters, poets, among others, are the true warriors in armor among all beings.

Men who were contemporary, modern, who lived in their time and had not merely been born in it. Men who understood the present and did not obey obsolete habits, reasons, and words. The role of the artist is to reshape the myth of the impossible and to create tragedy.”

in the author’s preface.

Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922–2019) is one of the greatest voices in 20th-century Portuguese literature, the author of a vast body of work that combines observations of human nature with an intensely intelligent narrative style. 

A prolific novelist, essayist, and central figure in Portuguese culture, she renewed national fiction with a gaze that was simultaneously classical and modern, rural and cosmopolitan, highlighting the importance of desire, power, and memory as the driving forces of narrative.