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On April 25, 1974, a date that now seems light years away, an extraordinary event took place in Portugal: on the notes of “Grândola, vila morena” by José Afonso, a group of army officers launched a revolution that put an end to the longest-lasting dictatorship in Europe, which lasted forty-seven years, ten months, twenty-four days and a few hours.
The flowers in the barrels of rifles, a symbol of the Carnation Revolution, were a moment of hope for an entire generation that, after the coup of Chile in 1973, the fierce repressions in Greece, the failure of the Prague Spring in 1968 and the Vietnam War, saw their ideals finally triumph. They were many, like the protagonists of this book Victor and Vasco, starting from every part of Europe to witness, at least once in their lives, the triumph of the revolution.
But every trip, even or especially if made on a mythical Due Cavalli, without navigators and off the highway, is an adventure, a journey made of encounters, inconveniences and surprises to ‘bury the tyrants with a laugh’. What’s left of that initiatory journey today? This will be discovered by readers who will find Victor and Vasco fifty years later still on the streets of Lisbon, always looking for a new dream to start over. As if youth were an eternal nostalgia.
