greatest german idealists, philosophers that is compared to the complaint against noise of it, the world was changing completely. and there was the impression that a whole new world was coming. part of haggle, store was devoted to the question of what would remain of the old world. what should be done with philosophy, religion, and art from before 1800. but he was also someone who had faith in this new world, and the unrest that came with it, he believed it should be confronted with thought. would contain often come juergen called the belief that reading hagar is necessary to confront all those today who are satisfied with simple truths his book makes the reader want to discover or rediscover the philosopher in time. now to travel to portugal, a country with a troubled history and home to an exciting young generation of rice's not afraid to explore it's past and present the problems

in has been destroyed many times during its history by quite by fire. yet here is where portugal rise as a colonial power. less than half a century ago. it was the seat of power, of author retiree and prime minister, though new the only way to salazar. today the city has a population of some half a 1000000, including of the week are those schumer, teens, one portugal, my 1st vices, a journalist and screenwriter. he also writes plays short stories and novels appreciate everything that comes from the external world or something that i, that i just see on the street talk to someone ear. and that thing mostly is always important for my work because people say things extraordinary. all the and people are suffering all the time,

laughing and ultima to that, that comes from from life, can go to my work in one way or another. those are much genes comes from out in tissue, in the rural south of the country. it's a poor region, but he describes people as proud and dependable. yet the suicide rate and alan tasia is significantly higher than in the rest of portugal. kind of those machines, explosive phenomena, and his, that you novel published in 2006, it became a best seller in portugal, propelled him into the vanguard of the country's literary scene, and was translated into english as glad to die. he went on to publish full prize winning novels. they sent around people who struggle with the burden of history was seen, looked about the, our movie did with africa for example of asia with our conquerors. but we do tried

to understand as a how little country did all this in the world and what, whatsoever with possibility to tell the others to tell the world about this and to create, i think that's the main purpose, emotion and beauty with our writing. so it on a pallet about age, read a lot of portuguese literature growing up and go la until $975.00. it was a portuguese colony in its own tradition and have a cage was depressed me. i was here to be a fortune to speak very well, portuguese, not to speak any of the african languages and not to mingle with that. we mean and for addition and all the uses of, of african societies. but me,

at the same time, there was the cool years about all those people that were near me. but i could not through i could not know i could not speak. i could not mingle with them because it was not alone after and go again, independence in 1975. civil war broke out and lasted until 2002. the fled the country in the late 978. after independence, she settled in portugal and goals for new ruler. many africans from portuguese colonies did the same witnesses to adopt chapter in the countries past. the although she lived in lisbon for more than 40 years,

still sees on go le hudden and cultural wellspring. she is honored in both countries as an and go and poet. she says that poetry is the language that it's best interested in the land of. the 1st ideas of humility, the 1st ideas of identity were written in poetry. the, there was, if i can say there was and then goal of 1st created in leach to then in real ne, in real only in the 975 on the day of the independence. but before there were many, many bullets that created b, this to the create a represented and gola m z and goal. and i'm going to only achieve independence

after a military coup in 1974 known as the carnation revolution, which overthrew the author retiree and government established by salazar 40 as the oppressive regime. restricted freedom of thought and did not tolerate dissenting writers. writers show say louise pay show to was born that yeah, he's grateful. he never experienced the dictatorship before the revolution during the state their ship there was this obligation to write in, in a way that was social intervention if politically charged . because if you are writing about social events or, or directly about politics, you were communicating with this,

the political situation. but also if you are writing about trees or flowers, you were ignoring all this issues. and you were also taking up was a stance politically a show to is one of the most renowned portuguese writers of his generation. and also one of the most internationally successful is poem travelogue. i'm novels have won numerous awards, stories, melancholy, steeped in gentle humour. his novel, kelsey eyes is such a poverty stricken rule. seldom portugal what they show to was born. it tells of love, betrayal, and passion, and the fight to survive. portugal is a small country in terms of surface, but it's a bit of a balance from my perspective, the development in your been areas in rural areas is very different. and in terms of rural interior, we've,

we face problems of population getting older and older. and also the certification in this village that gives title to the novel on that period in, in the 8. this was more than the double. it's the size it that's today. for example, the bookies right is a still rarely translated, but a few poets have nevertheless attained global fame. one is for ma'am, the monster melancholy museum has been dedicated to him. another is joseph margot, who was awarded the noble prize for literature in 1998, the only portuguese by to ever to win. one of the most important literary prizes in portugal is named off to him. in 2019 this went to have actually unknown mighta,

i'll phone to raise capital for novel based on a true story into down in northern portugal, a group of teenage boys befriended a lonely brazilian transsexual cold. she's better than tortured her and left it to die. the story haunted the young writer that was and believable. and at the same time, it was really, really literally shannon challenge. because what's happened between the point a and point b, that gap could be fields with literature could be filled with a story that was based on the real one. but it was mine, it was another thing altogether. it was literature i list, i hoped he'd be my think in childhood, i phone to raise about only publish his 1st novel in 2014. it tells the story of

a boy like his brother who has down syndrome. i just writes about things i. li, i enjoy or seems that compels that compelling. so and in a way i have a lack of emotion imagination for a concrete thing. so i like to base my books on reality or to to realities and anchor to, to my books. so that works well for me, so it's just, it just it just i don't know if, if it will continue to be like that's, that's from my 2 novels until now. it is what you go. fletcher reflects estimate of history exists the wounds and vibrancy of the south. the also the sorrow and pain of the past, and the weight of the present day anxieties. it's high time, more people around the globe discovered novels. i'm poetry from portugal.

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