Como Naufragou o Centauro, uma novela de João Carlos Celestino Gomes

Teresa Bagão

doi:10.34624/fb.v0i4.7054

Teresa Bagão Escola Secundária de Estarreja

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i4.7054

Keywords: Celestino Gomes, novella, seaman, shipwreck, memory, schooner, sea

Abstract

João Carlos Celestino Gomes (Ílhavo, 1899 – Lisboa, 1960) published the novella Como Naufragou o Centauro (1924) in the collection «Novela da Beira-Mar», thus retaking sea themes and also our tragic-maritime history, resorting to a first person narrative. Through the labour of memory, which unfolds the string of words, the
seaman with the deep green eyes tells the story of the shipwreck of the schooner