Lift Up Your Eyes to the Mountains — 25 Years of Joel Neto’s Work

Twenty-five steps along the path of a writer

Levanta os Olhos Para as Montanhas brings together moving texts that engage with the human, humanist, and deeply attentive writing of Joel Neto, one of the most singular authors in contemporary Portuguese literature, now celebrating 25 years in his literary career.

The twenty-two invited authors share the impact of Joel Neto's literature on their lives, never losing sight of the rarity with which the author sees the world and deciphers within it the themes dear to him: identity, belonging, existential dilemmas, silence and the cry, the land, the return home.

This book, marking such a symbolic milestone in Joel Neto's literary career, is a space of encounter: between readers and writer, between the islands and the mainland, between personal experience and collective memory. A window of contemplation, it is also an open invitation to everyone—longtime readers or newcomers alike—to lift their eyes and contemplate the mountains…

Levanta os Olhos Para as Montanhas includes texts by António de Névada, Carlos Mesquita Severino, Diniz Borges, Fernando Alves, Francisco José Viegas, Hugo Ribeiro, João de Melo, João Gonçalves, João Marcelino, Joaquim Vieira, José Júlio Rocha, José Mário Silva, Lélia Pereira Nunes, Margarida Quinteiro, Nuno Quintas, Onésimo Teotónio de Almeida, Paula Cotter Cabral, Paulo Matos, Raquel Varela, Urbano Bettencourt, Vamberto Freitas and Victor Rui Dores.