The Polyhedric Mirror – Tales of American Life
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Author: Jose Rodrigues Migueis
Translated by David Brookshaw, 2005. ISBN 0-943722-349
The short stories, chronicles and essays in this anthology of the writings of Jose Rodrigues Migueis (1901-1980) provide a rich and detailed image of the Portuguese immigrant and his life in mid-twentieth-century Manhattan. Brought together from various sources, they are intended, in the translator’s words, to pay homage to Migueis’s power not only as an observer of the immigrant and expatriate experience but as a commentator on the social and cultural context that in many ways defines it.
The translator, David Brookshaw, is Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies at Bristol University in England. He has published widely on the literature of the Portuguese-speaking world. Among his publications is the anthology Visions of China: Stories from Macau also published by Gávea-Brown.
The short stories, chronicles and essays in this anthology of the writings of Jose Rodrigues Migueis (1901-1980) provide a rich and detailed image of the Portuguese immigrant and his life in mid-twentieth-century Manhattan. Brought together from various sources, they are intended, in the translator’s words, to pay homage to Migueis’s power not only as an observer of the immigrant and expatriate experience but as a commentator on the social and cultural context that in many ways defines it.
The translator, David Brookshaw, is Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies at Bristol University in England. He has published widely on the literature of the Portuguese-speaking world. Among his publications is the anthology Visions of China: Stories from Macau also published by Gávea-Brown.
