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
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 Jose Saramago. This book was released on 1992. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
The History of the Siege of Lisbon - 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 History of the Siege of Lisbon write by José Saramago. This book was released on 1998-09-01. The History of the Siege of Lisbon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A proofreader realizes his power to edit the truth on a whim, in a “brilliantly original” novel by a Nobel Prize winner (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Raimundo Silva is a middle-aged, celibate clerk, proofing manuscripts for a respectable publishing house. Fluent in Portuguese, he has been assigned to work on a standard history of the country, and the twelfth-century king who laid siege to Lisbon. In a moment of subversive daring, Raimundo decides to change just one single word of text—a capricious revision that completely undoes the past. When discovered, his insolent disregard for facts appalls his employers—save for his new editor, Maria Sara. She suggests that Rainmundo take his transgressions even further. Through Rainmundo and Maria’s eyes, what transpires is an alternate view of history and a colorful reinvention of a debatable truth. It’s a serpentine journey through time where past and present converge, fact becomes myth, and fiction and reality blur—especially for Rainmundo and Maria themselves, who begin to find themselves erotically drawn to each other. “Walter Mitty has nothing on Raimundo Silva . . . this hypnotic tale is a great comic romp through history, language and the imagination.” —Publishers Weekly Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
Death with Interruptions
Death with Interruptions - 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 Death with Interruptions write by José Saramago. This book was released on 2009. Death with Interruptions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the first day of the new year, no one dies; the reality hits home as families are left to care for the permanently dying. Death sits in her apartment and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again?
