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The Illustrious House of Ramires
Author | : José Maria de Eça de Queirós |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811226981 |
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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 |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Aristocracy (Social class) |
ISBN | : 1910213608 |
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A Illustre Casa de Ramires the Illustrious House of Ramires
Author | : j. m. de Eca de queiroz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1417563721 |
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A Ilustre Casa de Ramires
Author | : Eca de Queiroz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:954245713 |
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A Ilustre Casa de Ramires
Author | : Eça de Queirós |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 19?? |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:221123076 |
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The City and the Mountains
Author | : Eça de Queirós |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811217019 |
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"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.
La ilustre casa de Ramires
Author | : José Maria Eça de Queiroz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9580435626 |
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On Emerging from Hyper Nation
Author | : Ronald W. Sousa |
Publsiher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781612493503 |
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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.