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- Title
Depois de La Lys: as Memórias da Grande Guerra, de Jaime Cortesão.
- Authors
Henriques, João Miguel
- Abstract
As the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought the First World War, a confict in which the young Portuguese republic participated with the heroic and naïve enthusiasm characteristic of those years, to an end, the present article proposes a reading and commentary of some passages of the book Memórias da Grande Guerra [Memoirs of the Great War], by Jaime Cortesão, especially the way the author assesses Portugal's theoretically victorious involvement in the confict. In his work, the Portuguese politician, writer and war-time offcer Cortesão, besides recalling the most important moments of his misadventures in Flanders, always celebrating in grandiloquent prose the heroism of Portuguese soldiers, also carries out a critical refection on the way political elites treat their most dedicated citizens and how offcial memory not always does justice to all sacrifces made on the battlefeld.
- Publication
Studia Iberystyczne, 2019, Vol 18, p169
- ISSN
2082-8594
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12797/SI.18.2019.18.12