"The 1920s were a moment when utopian and dystopian creativeness proliferated in Portuguese literature. Several writers imagined delightful or terrifying communities from where we can now draw a map of the dominant political subjectivities of the time. Religious and atheist, on the one hand, men and women, on the other, seemed to compose the two main imaginable forms of collective organization. In this sense, such narratives could be used to pacify or fight a political situation haunted by the Russian Revolution and whose organizing political identities (the proletariat and the bourgeoisie) were kept strangely absent from literary representation." Luis Trindade