Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Paper PG A3
Introduction to Lusophone literature
From the Lent Term you will have weekly sessions alternating Translation classes and lectures on the set texts. The examination for this paper lasts three hours. Copies of previous years' exams are available from the MML Library.Portuguese texts currently covered by ab initio students during their first year at Cambridge
- Machado de Assis: Selected short stories [Brazil]
- Miguel Torga: Selected short stories [Portugal]
- Mozambican poetry: selected authors on departmental website
- Lygia Fagundes Telles: Selected short stories [Brazil]
Cambridge bookshops (Heffers and Waterstone's) are aware of our reading lists. You may be able to purchase second-hand copies of some of the books from Heffers (tel. 01223 568568). You might also like to try online book-sellers like Amazon, alibris or abebooks.
Secondary reading - please discuss this with your lecturer and/or supervisor:
- Miguel Torga
- Machado de Assis
- Lygia Fagundes Telles
- African History
