The present dissertation propose an approach on Augusto Abelaira s artistic-intellectual project from his texts published in prefaces of books, chronicles and interviews published during the 1960 decade in the weekly supplement Vida artistica e literária of Diário de Lisboa. The investigation addresses three main points: the configurations of the writer, reader and literary critic roles; the relationship between art and politics in Europe and especially in Portugal, with the neo-realists and the Presença s group; and the possible spaces for literary intellectual intervention – in order to bring forward the author s views on romances theory and the social political moment in which he is situated and to focalize Augusto Abelaira s performance as a Portuguese Intellectual during the fascist dictatorial regime.