The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
of José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
Description
The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow.Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier. It is 1936, the clouds of Fascism are gathering ominously above them, so they talk; a wonderful, rambling discourse on art, truth, poetry, philosophy, destiny and love.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 384 pages
- Publisher Vintage Classics
- Publication Date September 17th 1998
- First Publication 10/28/84
- Language English
- ISBN 9781860465024
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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