Uma voz profética ou «O segredo de olhar o sol de frente»: A Juventude na obra de Fernando Namora

This essay explores fictional representations of young adulthood in the novel As Sete Partidas do Mundo (Seven Departures from the World), set in the second half of the 1930s and the first years of the 1940s. These years coincide with the period of consolidation for the neo-realist generation from the city of Coimbra. “Youth”, as omnipresent theme and represented experience in the writing by Fernando Namora, becomes the metaphor for future cultural fissures between tradition and innovation.