Camões and the initiatory journey

The most attentive readers and scholars of LUÍS DE CAMÕES are well acquainted with the boldness and audacity of these essays on the poet's epic and lyric work, which were first published in 1980 by Moraes, and have since been included in any bibliography on the subject. Now supplemented with a new, unprecedented perspective on his irreverent Letters, completing the dazzling portrait that the essayist and King's College professor, Helder Macedo, masterfully constructed, they are made available to us to better understand how much avant-garde the classic of classics carries.
«The pilgrimage recorded in his work points to something as indefinable, yet as revolutionarily modern, as the right to happiness on earth. “I was content with little” – said this “man of a terrible nature” for whom even excess was always too little – “just to see what it was like to live happily”.»