About the book: 2011 / Novel by the Portuguese writer Camilou Castelo Branco (1825-1890) "The Fallen Angel" (1865) has not previously been translated into Russian, this is the first an attempt at a scientific publication of one of the most famous works of the classic of Portuguese literature of the 19th century. In “Fallen Angel,” as in many novels by C. Castelo Branco, elements of literary play are combined with an ironic depiction of the author’s contemporary Portuguese reality. The use of “romantic irony” also allows C. Castel Branco to present a number of “vagrant plots” of European literature from an unexpected point of view. As a supplement to the novel, this edition publishes a short story by C. Castelo Branco “The Side Son” (1876) from the series “Short stories from the province of Minho.” This work, also published for the first time in Russian, is partly a re-interpretation of the plot of “Fallen Angel”».