The Seminary, School of the Poors, in Manhã Submersa (1953) by Vergílio Ferreira

Authors

  • Graça dos Santos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9125.v14i3p63-72

Keywords:

salazarism, school, religion, fiction, politics.

Abstract

At the time in which Salazar takes over as prime minister (1932), the Seminary of Viseu was already a solution for the survival and education for young kids emerging from poor backgrounds and which, incidentally, the head of the
Portuguese Estado Novo had experienced as well as the author of the novel, Vergílio Ferreira. Manhã submersa (Matin Perdu),
which won the 1990 Prix Femina in France, narrates the fate of Antonio Lopes dos Santos, nicknamed Borralho, who had no
other choice to be educated. We will see in which extent the fiction and the story of this young boy, as well as the various
stages of his fate, echo in the Portuguese reality of the time. We will discuss the issue of school and religion and, therefore,
the secularization along the Salazar’s Estado Novo.

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Author Biography

  • Graça dos Santos
    Equipe d’accueil doctorale 369 “Etudes romanes”,
    Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défensee.

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Published

2009-12-30

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2009): Comunicação & educação

Section

International Articles

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How to Cite

Santos, G. dos. (2009). The Seminary, School of the Poors, in Manhã Submersa (1953) by Vergílio Ferreira. Comunicação & Educação, 14(3), 63-72. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9125.v14i3p63-72