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The Great War and Remembrance in José Leon Machado's Memória das Estrelas sem Brilho
- Hispania
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 94, Number 3, September 2011
- pp. 396-405
- 10.1353/hpn.2011.a453988
- Article
- Additional Information
This article analyzes José Leon Machado's novel, Memória das Estrelas sem Brilho, as a multilayered historical novel in which a war story provides a background for comments on aspects of early twentieth-century Portuguese society, such as male bonding, religion, sexual mores, and social stratification.