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"Salazar's Angels of Death": Play commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution
Portuguese author Miguel Araújo Oliveira published his play "Salazar's Angels of Death" in September 2024, the year that marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution's peaceful overthrow of Portuguese fascism (Estado Novo). The book contains an afterword by the author, in which Oliveira expresses his dismay at the rise of the extreme right in Europe. "Salazar's Angels of Death" is intended to commemorate and warn against the return of authoritarianism.Plot:
The work concerns a group of young dissidents (mostly university students) who kidnap a man during the Portuguese dictatorship (1933-1974) to put him on trial. The youth accuse the man of being an unofficial member of the PIDE (Salazar's secret state police). They also accuse him of spying on various people and thus being responsible for their arrest, torture, or murder. The accused tries to defend himself. However, as he justifies and whitewashes fascism, he is unable to convince the dissidents of his innocence. The trial leader sentences the alleged informant to death. But just before the dissidents can take the law into their own hands, the tide turns...
Excerpt:
Then, suddenly, they stand in my cell again. They put a pistol to my temple. Cock the hammer. They play their antics with me. Laughingly. Pretending. Then suddenly they pull the trigger. I flinch. Desperately. I close my eyes in a flash. With fear. My whole body trembles. But they laugh again. "You were lucky"; they sneer and jeer. "There was no bullet in it. This time!"
Review:
"Miguel Oliveira's play is intense. It brings the injustice and brutality of the dictatorship to the stage, giving a voice to the victims of torture and violence who suffered under the regime. It is an unbearable text that shows the hopelessness, the bitter suffering, and the failure of a group of young dissidents who, in the midst of arbitrary rule, find the courage to demand freedom for themselves and their country." Susana de Abreu, former university lecturer in literature
Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Oliveira
CLi/FLUL
Alameda da Universidade
1600-214 Lisboa
Portugal
Miguel Araújo Oliveira was born in Hamburg in 1979. He is the author of several monographs featuring writers such as John Dos Passos, Günter Grass, and Ödön von Horváth. Ever since the launch of Oliveira's collection of poetry, Sem Título, he has been considered a major figure in present-day Madeiran literature. A selection of his poems was included in several anthologies of contemporary Portuguese poets. Oliveira has been invited to teach as a professor at several universities in Lisbon.
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