The Illustrious House of Ramires
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Jull Costa, Margaret (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2602-8
- EAN: 9780811226028
- Produktnummer: 21267034
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.5 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
Über den Autor
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.
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