Fialho de Almeida
1857–1911
Biography
José Valentim Fialho de Almeida, known simply as Fialho de Almeida, was born on 7 May 1857 at Vila de Frades, in the municipality of Vidigueira in the Alentejo, and died at Cuba, another Alentejo town, on 4 March 1911. He was a Portuguese journalist, writer and translator of the period after Romanticism, and his name is linked with the Symbolist and Decadent movements in Portuguese literature.
His political writing often took an anti-monarchist and republican line, and the same sharp attention to the society of his day runs through his journalism and his fiction. Journalism was a central part of his working life, and it shaped much of what he wrote.
Two of his books are on this site: A Cidade do Vício and Aves Migradoras. Reading them is a way to meet a late nineteenth-century Portuguese writer who worked between the newspaper and the book.
This biography was written by a language model. The sources below are where to check it; treat details with care.
Books
A Cidade do Vício
by Fialho de Almeida
Fialho de Almeida's first great collection of tales opens with a prelude, the Symphonia de Abertura, and follows with twelve vivid stories of country and city, among them Os Novilhos, O Roubo, A Camisa and Madona do Campo Santo. His prose is dense, sensuous and unsparing, and…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.Aves Migradoras
by Fialho de Almeida
A late collection by Fialho de Almeida, opening with the title piece and including stories of village and town life such as O Sineiro de Santa-Agatha, Pequeno Drama na Aldeia and A Eminente Actriz. It shows his richly coloured prose turned to people on the move and the passions…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.Contos
by Fialho de Almeida
The first book of tales by Fialho de Almeida, published at Porto in 1881, gathers thirteen stories, among them A Ruiva, Sempre Amigos, O Tio da América and O Milagre do Convento. They are early, lively and sometimes sentimental pictures of love, money and small-town life. This…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.