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Selection of reviews published in Spain

 

  • Directo Extremadura, May 2014 (on ‘El secreto de Barcarrota’)

António Sáez, one of the translators of this book, highlighted that Sérgio Luís de Carvalho is a novelist with a broad literary career, with several titles on his CV and with several awards in Portugal. His novel moves between real and fictional facts, perfectly intertwined. Sáez considers that ‘thanks to this novel, these Barcarrota books are once again relevant, in a story that tells us about the concept of freedom’.

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  • Digital Extremadura, May 2014 (on ‘El secreto de Barcarrota’)

‘El secreto de Barcarrota’, by Sérgio Luís de Carvalho, is an account based on real events that occurred in Barcarrota and Olivença in the mid-16th century. A book that reveals an Iberian pact shrouded in shadows and silence until a few years ago, an inexhaustible book that takes us back to the time of Lazarillo de Tormes.

Ana Lara

 

  • El Correo Galego, January 16, 2008 (on ‘Peregrinos sen fé’)

Very interesting novel by Sérgio Luís de Carvalho entitled ‘Peregrinos sem fé’ (‘Pilgrims without faith’). In it, the author using the Virgilian Aeneid as a reference, develops two lines of argument that intertwine in one breath until the end.

Isidro Nuevo

 

  • Byblos magazine – (on ‘Peregrinos sen fé’)

A tragic intensity associated with the terror unleashed by the persecutions of the Counter-Reformation, and the love of Aeneas and Dido, fills this novel with the best prose.

Tucho Calvo

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  • La Voz de Ferrol, May 11, 2007 (on the author)

Um dos maiores escritores vivos da língua portuguesa.

Beatriz Antón

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  • La Voz de Galicia, August 2006 (on the author)

In the literary production (of Sérgio Luís de Carvalho) there are certainly original proposals.

Joel Gómez

 

  • Agália magazine – 1st Semester 2006 (on ‘Peregrinos sen fé’)

Good historical romance. In literature such as Portuguese, where the great tradition of the historical novel gained all possible heights in the 20th century, a chord that the best Portuguese narrators play with diversity, the name of Sérgio Luís de Carvalho is now confirmed among them as an author of incomparable finesse and depth.

Carlos Quiroga

 

  • Byblos magazine, May-June 2006 (on ‘Retrato de São Jerónimo no seu estúdio’)

The most fascinating and best told story.

Carlos Quiroga

 

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