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The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547540345
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Siege of Lisbon written by José Saramago and published by HMH. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi

Author : Charles Wendell David
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi written by Charles Wendell David and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Queen of the Sea

Author : Barry Hatton
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1849049971
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Sea written by Barry Hatton and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2018 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic and intimate portrait of one of the world's great cities.

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

Author : Richard Zimler
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590208064
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon written by Richard Zimler and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Bestseller: “A moody, tightly constructed historical thriller . . . a good mystery story and an effective evocation of a faraway time and place.” —The New York Times After Jews living in sixteenth-century Portugal are dragged to the baptismal font and forced to convert to Christianity, many of these New Christians persevere in their Jewish prayers and rituals in secret and at great risk; the hidden, arcane practices of the kabbalists, a mystical sect of Jews, continue as well. One such secret Jew is Berekiah Zarco, an intelligent young manuscript illuminator. Inflamed by love and revenge, he searches, in the crucible of the raging pogrom, for the killer of his beloved uncle Abraham, a renowned kabbalist, discovered murdered in a hidden synagogue along with a young girl in dishabille. Risking his life in streets seething with mayhem, Berekiah tracks down answers among Christians, New Christians, Jews, and the fellow kabbalists of his uncle, whose secret language and codes by turns light and obscure the way to the truth he seeks. A marvelous story, a challenging mystery, and a telling tale of the evils of intolerance, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon both compels and entertains. “The story moves quickly . . . a literary and historical treat.” —Library Journal ''Remarkable . . . The fever pitch of intensity Zimler maintains is at times overwhelming but never less than appropriate to the Hieronymous Bosch-like landscape he describes. Simultaneously, though, he is able to capture, within the bedlam, quiet moments of tenderness and love.” —Booklist (starred review)

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156006248
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Siege of Lisbon written by José Saramago and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proofreader in a publishing house changes a word in a manuscript to make a history book read that a 12th Century battle was strictly a Portuguese victory, rather than a joint victory with the Crusaders. Instead of being fired the proofreader is commissioned to develop the idea into a novel. A study in historical revisionism.

The Stone Raft

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547545312
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Stone Raft written by José Saramago and published by HMH. This book was released on 1996-06-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “marvelously amusing” political fable in which part of the European continent breaks off and drifts away on its own (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A Nobel Prize winner who has been called “the García Márquez of Portugal” (New Statesman) chronicles world events on a human scale in this exhilarating allegorical novel. One day, quite inexplicably, the Iberian Peninsula simply breaks free from the European continent and begins to drift as if it were a sort of stone raft. Panic ensues as residents and tourists attempt to escape, while crowds gather on cliffs to watch the newly formed island sail off into the sea. Meanwhile, five people on the island are drawn together—first by a string of surreal events and then by love. Taking to the road to explore the limits of their now finite land, they find themselves adrift in a world made new by this radical shift in perspective. As bureaucrats ponder what to do about their unusual predicament, the intertwined lives of these five strangers are clarified and forever changed by a physical, spiritual, and sexual voyage to an unknown destination. At once an epic adventure and a profound fable about the state of the European project, The Stone Raft is a “hauntingly lyrical narrative with political, social, and moral underpinnings” (Booklist) that “may be Saramago’s finest work” (Los Angeles Times). Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero

Landscapes After the Battle

Author : Juan Goytisolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852421137
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes After the Battle written by Juan Goytisolo and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in his apartment in an immigrant district of Paris, the narrator is far from the high life of museums, elegant restaurants and boutiques. Within this imprisonment, his thoughts oscillate between revolutionary terrorism and pre-pubescent sexuality - a concern he shares with Lewis Carroll. Mirroring the conventions of Arabic texts, Landscapes After the Battle is to be understood from the perspective of its end; an end where the relationship between writer, the reader and the written is revealed as playful and humorous. The appearance of the comic in a novel by Juan Goytisolo is unexpected; like Dracula at a haemophiliacs? convention.

All the Names

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547536852
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book All the Names written by José Saramago and published by HMH. This book was released on 2001-10-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Nobel Prize winner: “A psychological, even metaphysical thriller that will keep you turning the pages . . . with growing alarm and alacrity.” —The Seattle Times A Washington Post Book World Favorite Book of the Year Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city’s Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor José sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman—but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would ever have wished. The loneliness of people’s lives, the effects of chance, the discovery of love—all coalesce in this extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of José Saramago in brilliant form.

Baltasar and Blimunda

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547537174
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Baltasar and Blimunda written by José Saramago and published by HMH. This book was released on 1998-10-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Elite Participation in the Third Crusade

Author : Stephen Bennett
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783275782
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Elite Participation in the Third Crusade written by Stephen Bennett and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivations behind those who went on the Third Crusade examined through close investigation of their social networks.

War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1600

Author : Francisco García Fitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351778862
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1600 written by Francisco García Fitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1600 is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula including the kingdoms of Leon and Castile, Aragon, Portugal, Navarra, al-Andalus and Granada. It offers an extensive chronology, covering the entire medieval period and extending through to the sixteenth century, allowing for a very broad perspective of Iberian history which displays the fixed and variable aspects of war over time. The book is divided kingdom by kingdom to provide students and academics with a better understanding of the military interconnections across medieval and early modern Iberia. The continuities and transformations within Iberian military history are showcased in the majority of chapters through markers to different periods and phases, particularly between the Early and High Middle Ages, and the Late Middle Ages. With a global outlook, coverage of all the most representative military campaigns, sieges and battles between 700 and 1600, and a wide selection of maps and images, War in the Iberian Peninsula is ideal for students and academics of military and Iberian history.

Novelists and Novels

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791093735
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Novelists and Novels written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read what Bloom had to say on the world's great novelists including Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemmingway and more.

The Great Sieges of History

Author : William Robson (Miscellaneous Writer.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Great Sieges of History written by William Robson (Miscellaneous Writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Small Memories

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547541546
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Small Memories written by José Saramago and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness recalls the days of his youth in Lisbon and the Portuguese countryside in this charming memoir. José Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from the village of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon. But he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illiterate peasants in the eyes of the outside world, but a fount of knowledge, affection, and authority to young José. Small Memories traces the formation of a man who emerged, against all odds, as one of the world’s most respected writers. Shifting between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this mosaic of memories looks back into the author’s boyhood: the tragic death of his older brother at the age of four; his mother pawning the family’s blankets every spring and buying them back in time for winter; his grandparents bringing the weaker piglets into their bed on cold nights; and Saramago’s early encounters with literature, from teaching himself to read to poring over a Portuguese-French conversation guide, not realizing that he was in fact reading a play by Molière.

A Small Death in Lisbon

Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Small Death in Lisbon written by Robert Wilson and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl's death leads Inspector Zé Coelho to unsolved crimes from Portugal's past.

Medieval Iberia

Author : Olivia Remie Constable
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812221680
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Iberia written by Olivia Remie Constable and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims and Christians engaged in an ongoing contest for political, religious, and economic advantage culminating in the fall of Muslim Granada and the expulsion of the Jews in the late fifteenth century. The reality that emerges in Medieval Iberia is more nuanced than either of these scenarios can comprehend. Now in an expanded, second edition, this monumental collection offers unparalleled access to the multicultural complexity of the lands that would become modern Portugal and Spain. The documents collected in Medieval Iberia date mostly from the eighth through the fifteenth centuries and have been translated from Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Castilian, Catalan, and Portuguese by many of the most eminent scholars in the field of Iberian studies. Nearly one quarter of this edition is new, including visual materials and increased coverage of Jewish and Muslim affairs, as well as more sources pertaining to women, social and economic history, and domestic life. This primary source material ranges widely across historical chronicles, poetry, and legal and religious sources, and each is accompanied by a brief introduction placing the text in its historical and cultural setting. Arranged chronologically, the documents are also keyed so as to be accessible to readers interested in specific topics such as urban life, the politics of the royal courts, interfaith relations, or women, marriage, and the family.

Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900

Author : Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118693418
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 written by Daniel R. Schwarz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz's precise and highly readable style, this critical study offers compelling discussions on a wide range of major works since 1900 and examines recurring themes within the context of significant historical events, including both World Wars and the Holocaust. The author cites important developments in the evolution of the modern novel and explores how these paradigmatic works of fiction reflect intellectual and cultural history, including developments in painting and cinema. Schwarz focuses on narrative complexity, thematic subtlety, and formal originality as well as how novels render historical events and cultural developments Discussing major works by Proust, Camus, Mann, Kafka, Grass, di Lampedusa, Bassani, Kertesz, Pamuk, Kundera, Saramago, Muller and Ferrante, Schwarz explores how these often experimental masterworks pay homage to the their major predecessors—discussed in Schwarz's ground-breaking Reading the European Novel to 1900—even while proposing radical departures from realism in their approach to time and space, their testing the limits of language, and their innovative ways of rendering the human psyche. Written for teachers and students by a highly-acclaimed scholar and including valuable study questions, Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 offers a guide for a deeper understanding of how these original modern masters respond to both the past and present.