Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - Softcover

Saramago, Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860465021 ISBN 13: 9781860465024

Publisher: Harvill Pr, 1998

Synopsis

The world''s threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow.

Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising 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.

About this title

About the Author

Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Portugese

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvill Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860465021
• ISBN 13: 9781860465024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358