Introduction:
It is not often that one comes across a manuscript of sufficient interest to justify the complete scrapping of a closely worked-out schedule. Ferreira de Castro’s The Mission is, however, one such. A short novel, it belongs to a category distasteful to English publishers, and for that reason rarely produced by English writers. Last month we published an article dealing in general terms with de Castro’s work. It is necessary here simply to repeat, for those who may have missed it, that he is Portuguese, worked for many years in Brazil and now lives in Lisbon. Although long regarded in most European countries as being a writer of unusual importance, few of his books, and those among the earliest, have appeared in English translation. It is good to learn that, as a consequence of the announcement in our August issue, this will soon be remedied. Meanwhile, The Mission, about which we need say no more, is here to be read.
I wrote, in the introduction to the first issue of the New Series in April, that we should from time to time devote a whole number to a particular subject. The painting survey, the first part of which we printed in July, will be completed early next year. We plan, in 1962, both an Italian and a French number. In between them, we shall produce special sections on poetry, the theatre, and contemporary architecture.
In any magazine that covers more than one of the arts, there are bound to be occasions when certain features get squeezed out. I woud like to reaffirm here our intention of devoting space in relation to what seems to us of most immediate interest, without reference to category. Over any period these are likely to balance out. Generally speaking, however, we shall aim to print one article each month on the visual arts and on the theatre, and one alternately on music and the cinema.
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