The main goal of this article is to disseminate a work which has almost been forgotten: Visum nach Amerika, by Salamon Dembitzer. A self-fictional narrative guided by a very critical, ironically disillusionistic perspective, interweaving the protagonist's experiences with various reflexive comments, it dismantles – sometimes sarcastically – everything and everyone: the consulates, the Portuguese, the refugees. Nevertheless, going beyond the mere «account of facts» - a definition used by the author himself –, Visum nach Amerika is also a work about the task of literature and the writers.
Exílio e Memória: Portugal e o Brasil na rota dos refugiados do nacional-socialismo As crises humanitárias vividas pelos refugiados que se adensam às portas da União Europeia nas primeiras décadas do século XXI levaram ao incremento da presença das temáticas da migração e do exílio nos discursos mediáticos e políticos. Também os estudos culturais e artísticos, com especial destaque para os estudos literários, e a literatura lhes continuam a dedicar (renovada) atenção.
Resumo: Com uma obra que se relaciona intimamente com a sua biografia, Albert Vigoleis Thelen foi um autor em contracorrente. Após alguns apontamentos sobre a sua vida de errância e as particularidades narrativas que mais o distinguiram, centrar-me-ei no eco literário do seu exílio em Portugal.
Palavras-chave: Thelen, exílio, Portugal, Teixeira de PascoaesAbstract: With a work closely related to his biography, Albert Vigoleis Thelen was an author in countercurrent. After a few notes on his life of wandering and the narrative characteristics that most distinguished him, the A. will focus on literary echoes of his exile in Portugal.
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