Blind man's bluff

“Barranco de Cegos” ends up being the biography of a real character, but fundamentally symbolic of a powerful Ribatejo landowner, whose story Redol recounts from 1891, the year of the republican revolt in Porto. What Redol fundamentally shows is the internal and external struggle of Diogo Relvas - who symbolises both the conservative ideology of a dominant class and the reactionary ideology of a decadent class - against the revolutionary ideology of the rising classes. Alves Redol gives us, within the Portuguese novel, the first masterful portrait of such a type of character. “Barranco de Cegos” is included in Caminho's general plan for publishing the Complete Works of Alves Redol. The following titles have already been published: “Gaibéus”, “Nasci com Passaporte de Turista e Outros Contos”, “O Muro Branco”, “Olhos de Água” and “Fanga”.