ABSTRACT
The last twenty years have seen a, perhaps unprecedented, surge in Portuguese literature. Already extremely rich, Portuguese literature after the revolution of April 25, 1974, has been dynamized by the appearance of a number of great writers. The last quarter of this century, far from indicating decline, as one could expect from its millenary quality, will be marked by the impetus brought on by varied writers, some of them present today, who have renewed Portuguese literature and made it one of the most vibrant in the West. Portugal's long history can be seen now as ground for its projection into the future, a future imagined in its literature, which is being shaped, individually and collectively, in conflict and in cooperation with the international community. After the final dissolution of empire, and the reintegration into a European political arena, Portugal has had to question its role.
