✍ Queirós, José Maria de Eça de
📂 Fiction
📅 2017
🏛 New Directions
🌐 English
⚖ 301 KB
👁 1 views
✦ LIBER ✦
The Illustrious House of Ramires
✍ Scribed by José Maria De Eça de Queirós
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 303 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0811226980
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In a brilliant new translation, the wonderful penultimate novel by Eça de Queiros: "Portugal's greatest novelist" (Jose Saramago)
The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is the favorite novel of many Eça de Queiros aficionados. This late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal. Gonçalo--charming but disastrously effete, idealistic but hopelessly weak--muddles through his pampered life, burdened by a grand ambition. He is determined to write a great historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his fierce medieval ancestors. But "the record of their valor," as The London Spectator remarked, "is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, Ramires is continually humiliated but at the same time...
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