Nobel Prize for Literature, José Saramago
Camilo Castelo Branco becomes mandatory. It is the proposal to review the Essential Portuguese Learning.
For Portuguese classes at 12th yearschools can choose one of two textbooks José Saramago: ‘Memorial do Convento’ and ‘The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis’. One of them is mandatory.
But the work of the Nobel Prize winner for Literature may no longer be mandatory in schools, said .
The Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation itself put the proposed revision of Essential Portuguese Learning into public discussion.
The document, under consultation until April 28th, adds a book like that choose: ‘A God Walking on the Afternoon Breeze’by Mário Carvalho. I.e, if schools choose this last work, students will not study Saramago.
“It’s for increase diversityis to increase the themes possible. Mário de Carvalho’s work deals with an issue that is very current, which has to do with an entire decay of society, a whole human thought about a society that is in decline, with all the manifestations of populism, extremism, with various dangers”, explained Carla Marques, from the Association of Portuguese Teachers, to RTP.
He adds that what becomes mandatory is the reading of a work by Camilo Castelo Brancoin the 12th year.
According to , Fernando Pessoa remains mandatory in the 12th year, as does ‘George’, the short story written by Maria Judite de Carvalho. Already in the 11th year, ‘Sermão de Santo António’ by Father António Vieira, ‘Frei Luís de Sousa’ by Almeida Garrett, Eça de Queirós, Camilo Castelo Branco and Antero de Quental remain.
