The Illustrious House of Ramires - Couverture souple

De Eça De Queirós, José Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811226026 ISBN 13 : 9780811226028

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022

Synopsis

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."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

One of the leading intellectuals of the "Generation of 1870," José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat, in Havana, London, and Paris.

Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Marías and José Saramago, lives in England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811226026
• ISBN 13: 9780811226028
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible