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O seminário, escola dos pobres, em Manhã submersa (1953), de Vergílio Ferreira

2009; School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo; Volume: 14; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11606/issn.2316-9125.v14i3p63-72

2316-9125

Graça dos Santos,

Religious Tourism and Spaces

At the time in which Salazar takes over as prime minister (1932), the Seminary of Viseu was already a solution for the survival and education for young kids emerging from poor backgrounds and which, incidentally, the head of thePortuguese Estado Novo had experienced as well as the author of the novel, Vergílio Ferreira. Manhã submersa (Matin Perdu),which won the 1990 Prix Femina in France, narrates the fate of Antonio Lopes dos Santos, nicknamed Borralho, who had noother choice to be educated. We will see in which extent the fiction and the story of this young boy, as well as the variousstages of his fate, echo in the Portuguese reality of the time. We will discuss the issue of school and religion and, therefore,the secularization along the Salazar’s Estado Novo.