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The Illustrious House of Ramires

Author : José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811226980
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrious House of Ramires written by José Maria de Eça de Queirós and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant new translation, the wonderful penultimate novel by Eça de Queirós: “Portugal's greatest novelist” (José Saramago) The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is the favorite novel of many Eça de Queirós aficionados. This late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal. Gonçalo—charming but disastrously effete, idealistic but hopelessly weak—muddles through his pampered life, burdened by a grand ambition. He is determined to write a great historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his fierce medieval ancestors. But “the record of their valor,” as The London Spectator remarked, “is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, Ramires is continually humiliated but at the same time kindhearted. Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel. Eça de Queirós has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal."

The Illustrious House of Ramires

Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrious House of Ramires written by Eça de Queirós and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Illustre Casa de Ramires . the Illustrious House of Ramires

Author : j. m. de Eca de queiroz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book A Illustre Casa de Ramires . the Illustrious House of Ramires written by j. m. de Eca de queiroz and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Illustrious House of Ramires

Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212649
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrious House of Ramires written by Eça de Queirós and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goncalo Ramires, last heir to the most noble house of Portugal, is writing a book on his ancestors in the hope some of the glory will rub off on him. In counter-pointing Goncalo's cowardice with the valor of his ancestors, Queiroz (1845-1900) was identifying him with Portugal itself. Queiroz has been called the Dickens of Portugal.

A Ilustre Casa de Ramires

Author : Eca de Queiroz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book A Ilustre Casa de Ramires written by Eca de Queiroz and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The City and the Mountains

Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217019
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The City and the Mountains written by Eça de Queirós and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in Paris, Jacinto - the hero of The City and the Mountains - is the heir to a vast estate in the Alentejo in Portugal, which he has never visited. Jacinto lives in a beautiful mansion crammed with books and the latest gadgets. He mixes with the creme de la creme of Paris society, but is monumentally bored. One by one, his gadgets let him down. And then he receives a letter from the estate manager in Portugal: the bones of his ancestors are to be moved to the new chapel - would he like to be there? With great trepidation, Jacinto sets off with his best friend, the narrator, on a mammoth train journey. When they arrive, the huge old house is a wreck, all Jacinto's luggage has been lost, but for the first time in ages he eats a hearty meal and sleeps the sleep of the just on a straw mattress on the floor. Jacinto has the house renovated, sets about improving conditions for his farm workers, and what he discovers in simple country life upends his expectations deliciously."--BOOK JACKET.

A Ilustre Casa de Ramires

Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book A Ilustre Casa de Ramires written by Eça de Queirós and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

La ilustre casa de Ramires

Author : José Maria Eça de Queiroz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789580435624
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book La ilustre casa de Ramires written by José Maria Eça de Queiroz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Emerging from Hyper-Nation

Author : Ronald W. Sousa
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612493505
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book On Emerging from Hyper-Nation written by Ronald W. Sousa and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Emerging from Hyper-Nation represents Ronald W. Sousa’s attempt to answer the question, “Why do I smile on reading one of Saramago’s ‘historical’ novels?” Why that reaction of emotional release? To answer the “smile question” the book engages in a critical mode that could be described as “discourse analysis.” It combines several critical strains and relies on basic concepts from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Adlerian psychology, and contemporary cognitive psychology for their discourse-analytical value rather than as entrées into psychoanalytical reading per se. The introductory chapter presents some of the concepts that underlie that compound analytical modality and sets out an overview of twentieth-century Portuguese social and economic history. Then, with an eye to answering the “smile question,” the book reads Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s three novels, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989). Or, better, it seeks to read Sousa’s own reading of the three works, since focus falls on how each novel seeks to construct both its own reading and also Sousa as its reader. The discussion brings to light a number of textual phenomena that bear upon the “smile question.” Among them are that the novels invoke, often subtly, the fascist hermeneutical heritage remaining from before the revolution of 1974 as a constituent part of their communication with the reader; that they summon up historical trauma; that they function as Freudian-style “tendentious jokes”; and that, through these various invocations, they seek to constitute a postrevolutionary Portuguese subject. The reading of Sousa’s reading, then, ends up being a reading of some of the cultural forces at work in postrevolutionary Portugal.

The Falling Snow and Other Stories

Author : José Maria Eça de Queirós
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235049
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Falling Snow and Other Stories written by José Maria Eça de Queirós and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of themes characterize the stories: love, greed, obsession, country life; patriotism"--

A Companion to Portuguese Literature

Author : Thomas Foster Earle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1855662671
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Portuguese Literature written by Thomas Foster Earle and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It consists of a chronological overview of Portuguese literature from the twelfth century to the present day, by some of the most distinguished literary scholars of recent years, leading into substantial essays centred on major authors, genres or periods, and a study of the history of translations. It does not attempt an encyclopaedic coverage of Portuguese literature, but provides essential chronological and bibliographical information on all major authors and genres, with more extensive treatment of key works and literary figures, and a particular focus on the modern period. It is unashamedly canonical rather than thematic in its examination of central authors and periods, without neglecting female writers. In this way it provides basic reference materials for students beginning the study of Portuguese literature, and for a wider audience looking for general or specific information. The editors have made a principled decision to exclude both Brazilian and African literature, which demand separate treatment. STEPHEN PARKINSON, CLAUDIA PAZOS ALONSO and T. F. EARLE are all members of the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese at the University of Oxford. CONTRIBUTORS: Vanda Anast cio, Helena Carvalhao Buescu, Rip Cohen, T. F. Earle, David Frier, Lu s Gomes, Mariana Gray de Castro, Helder Macedo, Patricia Odber de Baubeta, Hilary Owen, Stephen Parkinson, Cl udia Pazos Alonso, Juliet Perkins, Teresa Pinto Coelho, Phillip Rothwell, Mark Sabine, Claire Williams, Clive Willis.

Diversions and Animadversions

Author : Alexander Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351522035
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Diversions and Animadversions written by Alexander Coleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains nearly all the criticism that Alexander Coleman wrote for The New Criterion between 1994 and 2003. A specialist in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American literature, Coleman was also a superb essayist on music, and his wide erudition, as revealed in these writings, demonstrates an easy mastery of the entire modernist tradition. Diversions and Animadversions is divided into three parts. The first contains Coleman's literary essays including a lengthy piece on Eba de Quieros, the great master of Portuguese realism, and shorter pieces on the Argentinian writer and Borges disciple, Adolfo Bioy Casares, as well as a review of the most recent translation of the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca. Coleman's greatest passion, however, was for music, and part two contains essays, concert and book reviews, and reports on the cultural situation of music. Among the subjects examined here are the operas of Schoenberg, Berg, Richard Strauss, the recently published letters of Toscanini, the music criticism of Virgil Thomson, the fluctuating critical reputation of Jean Sibelius, and the authentic performance practice movement, along with considerations of such instrumentalists as Sviatoslav Richter and Alicia de Larrocha. The book concludes with Coleman's travel writings, which are both evocative mood pieces and incisive social and political commentary. Graced with personal appreciations by Roger Kimball and Denis Donoghue, this volume encapsulates the work of a writer of rare wit, capacious learning, and eager, if gently ironical, curiosity.

A Literary and Historical Exploration of the Life and Works of Runar Schildt

Author : George C. Schoolfield
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527528693
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book A Literary and Historical Exploration of the Life and Works of Runar Schildt written by George C. Schoolfield and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book written for an English language audience on the work of the Finland-Swedish author, Runar Schildt (1888-1925). Schildt was a highly cosmopolitan writer, who kept a keen eye on the latest continental prose and showed an affinity for the literary decadence that was in fashion around the turn-of-the-century, as well as early modernism. He worked as a literary critic, a theater director, and a translator, which kept him in touch with the latest literary trends in Europe. The book posits that Schildt’s work bears witness to the turbulent times he lived in: he saw his native Finland transformed from a Grand Duchy of Russia to a republic, against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and the Finnish Civil War. Schildt’s literary career provides important cultural and historical insights into this significant moment of modern European history.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3319624199
Total Pages : 1977 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 1977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.

A Man of Letters

Author : V.S. Pritchett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144820240X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book A Man of Letters written by V.S. Pritchett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. S. Pritchett is widely - and justly - regarded not only as one of the finest short story writers of this century, but as a critic and essayist of astonishing range, perception and originality. Combining an unpretentious common sense with a rare genius for the illuminating insight into the familiar and the neglected alike, his criticism is all the more valuable in an age in which the study of literature has become increasingly arid and arcane; and unlike so many of his academic counterparts, V. S. Pritchett has always had a remarkable ability to epitomise a writer's work - and convey his own enthusiasm for it - within the compass of a short and eminently accessible essay. First published in 1985, A Man of Letters brings together a selection of his finest and most representative work from the past forty years, ranging from Smollett and Peacock to Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly, from Henry James and Nathanael West to Stendhal and Proust, from Nabokov and Machado de Assis to Manzoni and Dostoevsky. This wise and sparkling collection is, in itself, a lasting tribute to one of the greatest Men of Letters of our time.

Darkening Stars

Author : José Leon Machado
Publisher : Ediçoes Vercial
ISBN 13 : 9897000887
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Darkening Stars written by José Leon Machado and published by Ediçoes Vercial. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Darkening Stars - A Novel of the Great War" is about a young law student who was drafted to serve as a platoon commander in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps sent to Flanders in 1917. What happened to him and the men under his command, the small and great miseries of their life in the trenches, their links with what they left behind and what they lost, and the incomprehension they met upon returning home, are some of the main lines of this moving and historically accurate portrait of one of the most turbulent periods of Portuguese history. It is also a story of love and of a young man's inner struggles and personal growth, his determined search for peace and happiness, along a path strewn with destruction and trampled dreams.

Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil

Author :
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783169869
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil written by and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953), a key figure in understanding the making of modern Brazil. Building on existing literature, this book innovates through chapters that consider issues such as Ramos’s dialogue with literary tradition, his cultural legacy for contemporary writers, and his treatment of racial discrimination and gender inequality through the multifarious, provocative and enduringly fascinating characters he created. The volume also addresses the question of Ramos’s political involvement during the years of the Getulio Vargas government (1930–45), to revisit established readings of the author’s politics. Through close reading of individual works as well as comparative analyses, this volume takes readers into the complexities of modernisation in Brazil, and highlights the writer’s significance for our understanding of Brazil today.