The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis write by José Saramago. This book was released on 1992-04-27. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Nobel Prize-winning author: “A capacious, funny, threatening novel” of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal (The New York Times Book Review). The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is establishing himself in Portugal, edging his country toward civil war. At the same time, Dr. Ricardo Reis has returned home to Lisbon after a long sojourn in Brazil. What’s brought him back is word that the great poet, Fernando Pessoa, has died. With no intention of resuming his practice, Reis now dabbles in his own poetry, wastes his days strolling the boulevards and back streets, engages in affairs with two different women—and is followed through each excursion by Pessoa’s ghost. As a fascist revolution roils, and as Reis’s path intersects with three relative strangers—two living, one dead—Reis may finally discover the reality of his own chimerical existence. “A rich story about human relationships and dreams.”—The New York Times Called “a magnificent tour-de-force, perhaps one of the best novels published in Europe since World War II” (The Bloomsbury Review) and “altogether remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is a PEN Award winner and stands among the finest works by the author of Blindness. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis write by Jose Saramago. This book was released on 1992. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis write by Jose Saramago. This book was released on 1992-04. Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Saramago portraits an imaginary encounter between Fernando Pessoa and Ricardo Reis, who venture back to Portugal after the establishment of the dictatorship of general Salazar. "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" describes the country during dictatorship and highlights views using Pessoa's poetic aspect which have long been forgotten in history.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis write by José Saramago. This book was released on 1999. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Baltasar and Blimunda
Baltasar and Blimunda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baltasar and Blimunda write by José Saramago. This book was released on 1998-10-16. Baltasar and Blimunda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.” —The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church an expansive new convent, should they intercede with God to give him an heir. A lonely priest works in maniacal solitude on his Passarola, a heretical flying machine he hopes will allow him to soar far from the madness surrounding him. A young couple, brought together by chance, live out a sweet, if tormented, romance. Meanwhile, amid the fires and horrors of the Inquisition, angry crowds and abused peasants rejoice in spectacles of cruelty, from bullfighting to auto-da-fe; disgraced priests openly flout God’s laws; and chaos reigns over a society on the brink of disaster. Weaving together multiple storylines to present both breathtaking fiction and incisive commentary, renowned Portuguese writer and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, José Saramago spins an epic and captivating yarn, equal parts historical fiction, political satire, religious criticism, and whimsical romance. Hailed by USA Today as “an unexpected gem,” Baltasar and Blimunda is a captivating literary tour de force, full of magic and adventure, exquisite historical detail, and the power of both human folly and human will.
