The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

Dealing with the subject of the novel happens in Portugal in the subsequent phase of the dictatorship, in the stage of democracy, but democracy is still in the hands of the institutions are considered a continuation of the previous era, both in terms of mental authoritarianism inherited from the previous era, or at the level of thinking when these. Therefore, we find that the main concern underlying the novel is the freedom and oppression, and the journalist plays an important role in uncovering the facts, the Cascade? Events that appear through the press investigation. The main theme of the novel, which constitutes a material is the brutal torture practiced by the police towards the downtrodden social classes or marginalized ethnic minorities. Was the writer by his imagination novelist strange that converts information or events from the social objective reality to reality novelist, in which the most important: the journalist Firmino figures, the young man who tries to be his personality and his style, and the lawyer, Fernando Dmilo drunkard, which no one knows his name and everyone they know his title, Luton, chaotic, metaphysical student of German philosophy, the heir to the former Portuguese aristocracy, the traitor to his class and intellectual Morotha, belonging to Mshoukan and researcher for their salvation. If they are the primary Luton is to work against submission to the rules, established by the European aristocracy, against tyranny, and against surrender to tyranny, and even prosecuted by all means scandalous and Almarah a media in this case, to remove the case from the hands of anti-democratic forces. The author has managed to impose himself as one of the most important Italian writers of his generation and was able to achieve a global presence in the world of the novel.