Jorge Amado: um escritor maldito encontra a sua Lisboa, cidade proibida, cidade imaginada

This work presents some reflections on writer Jorge Amado in Portugal, taking by north Navegação de cabotagem (1994). In this memoir, reports a series of events his interaction with Portuguese intellectuals, artists and writers relationship the city Lisbon, which was initially marked prohibition communist entering country. Reports are commented article that bring images representations important to culture people Portuguese. Such expose political context hard affected Estado Novo, when government Oliveira Salazar disseminated «Portugality» discourse, extending it its ultramarine colonies, as way controlling critical thinking dictatorial regime.