Vergílio Ferreira: The Hen
15 Novembro 2016, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu
Vergílio Ferreira as an existentialist and neorealist writer: the (lack of) meaning of life and the specificities of Portuguese history in the 1970s."The Hen" as a short nonsense story divided in five parts whose development follows a crescendo of violence (from a domestic to a nationwide scale), despite its apparently comic starting point (value of irony).
The irrationality, unresolvability and pointlessness of conflict as a representation for the absurdity of life in general and of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974) in particular.