Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - Couverture rigide

Saramago, Jose

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0002712776 ISBN 13 : 9780002712774

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

Set in Lisbon in 1936, this book follows the character of Ricardo Reis, a doctor who returns to his native Portugal after 16 years in Brazil. But what kind of doctor is he? Instead of receiving patients in his surgery he spends his time walking and reciting poetry, accompanied by a dead poet.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow.

Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier. It is 1936, the clouds of Fascism are gathering ominously above them, so they talk; a wonderful, rambling discourse on art, truth, poetry, philosophy, destiny and love.

Revue de presse

"The greatest of his novels" (New Statesman)

"Lovely...a work of fluent and amazing gracefulness" (Independent)

"A capacious, funny, threatening novel" (New York Times Review of Books)

"He has created a body of work of luminous power: ironic, intellectually playful, dense and strange" (Scotsman)

"Shows Saramago to be a novelist of the grandest sort...it is a dramatic work of great philosophical weight, filtered through a refined contemplative intelligence" (Independent)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0002712776
• ISBN 13: 9780002712774
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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