This Sunday is the 200th anniversary of the death of Camilo Castelo Branco. Author of classics, was the first writer to live in literature.
Camilo Castelo Branco has already been represented and so many times the works of the writer, the greatest name of romanticism, were interpreted. Lisbon mysteries was the writer’s second novel. Date of 1854.
Born in Bairro Alto, in Lisbon. Orphan of mother and father, in childhood, went to live with an aunt to Vila Real. The loss would mark him forever and transposed to writing. Forbidden loves and social inequalities were also themes explored by Camilo Castelo Branco who became the first author to live in writing and debuted in literature in 1851 with “anathema.”
The widow of the hanged, the series that was aired at SIC, is based on the book of the writer, which has in love of perdition, the masterpiece that was so often adapted to the cinema and to which Manoel de Oliveira did not resist. Mário Barros adapted her to modern times
The work published in 1862 was written in 15 days, when the writer was arrested in the Porto chain, accused of adultery, such as Ana Plácido, at the married time. They were detained a year.
Their love is represented in a statue that created controversy in 2023, among those who dubbed it “aesthetic disgust” and created a petition and who defended it. He eventually stayed at the Largo of Love of Perdition in Porto.
Camilo Castelo Branco, received the title of Viscount granted by the king of Portugal, D. Louis I and was honored by the Academy of Lisbon. At 65, with health and blind problems, he ended his life in Seide, in the Braga district, where there is currently a museum house.
