Christianity and marxism in “Estação”, by Nuno Bragança

Abstract

The writer Nuno Bragança joined the group of "progressive Catholics" who during the Salazar regime engaged in resistance to the dictatorship, through various forms of struggle. The author and his literary characters base their action on the practice of authentic Christian values, some of which coincide with the ones defended by Marxism. Such an attitude often implies explicit or veiled criticism of the official Catholic Church. In the storybook Estação, we find the representation of different social classes and their relationships, in an evolutionary perspective, as well as a real, desired or desirable behavior of structures responsible for the functioning of a society we want fair.