Through the
Saga of the Ribera Flores, alentejanos agricultural proprietors, we revivemos
in many pages, tumultuous
years of a wrinkled century and suffered for
dictatorships and bloody disputes, where the way that leads to the
freedom seems too much narrow and the price to pay incomportávelmente high. river of
the Flowers is an ambitious, shining literary composition and that in it
carries them since the deep Alentejo, the Lisbon,
Spain, Italy and to Brazil. Being a great work of
historical contextualização, it aims at some scenes geo politicians and
confrontations of ideals. è magnificent the description of episodes of Civil
War of Spain and minute characterization cultural partner of Brazil, as well as
the framing politician of Portugal in períodp accumulated of stocks by the
book, of 1915 the 1945, a
crucial phase that decisively conditions the history of century XX Portuguese. The
history of the family Ribera Flores, whose disirmãos Diogo and Peter, are the protagonists,
want for the difference of ideological thought, wants for the culture and way
to be, still wants for the loves and experiences flesh times that the two take
the handle. It has in the way of the family also the passion and the love for
the pretty women who are conquered, has a histária of love that it deserves to
be chore, for the human heat, for the described feminine beauty for the will to
transpose the pages that we feel to each letter of sofreguidão, kisses,
delivery flesh time. Miguel Sousa Tavares, author of River of the Flowers,
exponencia the dissensão politics enters the two brothers giving voice to the
certainties anchylosed and feachistas of Peter, but at the same time loving of
the land, the uses and customs of the family, agriculture, the mount and the
animals, whereas Diogo, Engineer, cult, friend of the reading and
antifaschista, gotten passionate for a pretty and inolvidável cigana, with who
if house, trail for other ways that in go arresting page the page. The author o
offer-in the moments of enthusiastic reading, as the one that in them intruzem
the protagonist, Diogo Ribera Flores, been born in 1900, son of Manuel Custódio
and grandson of a Sevillian, in its initiation to the adult life, as int´roito
to the fair of Seville (taurom´quica), had only fifteen years when the father
took it, returning thirteen days later made man, after having last a night in a
house of girls, saboreando the pleasure to have in the arms, for the first time
a truth woman. è also with splendid flavor and written that in them is
described the duel in the enclosure for bullfighting of the Maestranza Real, in
that one 30 of September of 1915, enters two bigger figures of the toureio the
foot, Jose Go''mez Ortega, more known for Joselito “El Gallo” and Juan Belmonte.
We can equally sintetisar the dialogue between the two brothers, Peter and
Diogo, whose thought politician, already cited, so different, Peter inclusively
lined up with the New
State and fachista the
Nacional Union, with ticket for the Civil War of Spain, to the side of the
Nationalist, Falangistas, fighting the Republicans. One day Diogo, confesses:
“I have
fear of a thing that you do not fear: that after knowing the freedom,
to have travelled and lived in free countries, it does not come back me to
accustom to live in another way. I have fear that the freedom if becomes one
vitiates, whereas now is only one homesickness ". Diogo finishes for being
atraido by Brazil where the lands in abundance of water, had a very inferior
price to the practised one in Portugal, and the workers usufructed of wages
many times below of the existing ones in Portugal. Diogo is magic for the
place, Farm of Clear Waters, next to the River of the Flowers. Diogo leaves
Valmonte in the Alentejo, leaves its beautiful woman Support with its children,
the mother Maria of the Glory and the referenciado brother Peter. Diogo finds
in Brazil
another place and a young Benedita Brazilian ..... for who if it gets
passionate….©. . . .
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