The Illustrious House Of Ramires

Author : José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811226981

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The Illustrious House of Ramires by José Maria de Eça de Queirós Pdf

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."

Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 1910213608

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The Illustrious House of Ramires by Eça de Queirós Pdf

Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher : Aspects of Portugal
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : WISC:89054125893

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The Illustrious House of Ramires by Eça de Queirós Pdf

In this brilliant, many-layered novel, Eca chooses an unlikely hero, a half-ruined aristocrat, generous, devious, who takes refuge from decline in writing about the courage of his forebears. This is the story of Ramires, and of the Portugal of Eca's time.

Author : Eca de Queiroz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:954245713

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A Ilustre Casa de Ramires by Eca de Queiroz Pdf

Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221123076

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A Ilustre Casa de Ramires by Eça de Queirós Pdf

Author : José Maria Eça de Queiroz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9580435626

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La ilustre casa de Ramires by José Maria Eça de Queiroz Pdf

Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811217019

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The City and the Mountains by Eça de Queirós Pdf

"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.

Author : Ronald W. Sousa
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781612493503

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On Emerging from Hyper-Nation by Ronald W. Sousa Pdf

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.

Author : José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811225847

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The Yellow Sofa by José Maria de Eça de Queirós Pdf

A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where “everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.” The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife “on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.” The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.

Author : José Maria Eça de Queirós
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813235042

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The Falling Snow and Other Stories by José Maria Eça de Queirós Pdf

"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"--

Author : Thomas Foster Earle,Stephen Parkinson,Cláudia Pazos Alonso
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662674

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A Companion to Portuguese Literature by Thomas Foster Earle,Stephen Parkinson,Cláudia Pazos Alonso Pdf

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.

Author : Alexander Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351522038

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Diversions and Animadversions by Alexander Coleman Pdf

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.

Author : George C. Schoolfield
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527528697

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A Literary and Historical Exploration of the Life and Works of Runar Schildt by George C. Schoolfield Pdf

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.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1977 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319624198

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

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.

Author : Teresa Pinto Coelho
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781855662681

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Eça de Queirós and the Victorian Press by Teresa Pinto Coelho Pdf

E a de Queir s' work has primarily been studied within the context of French literature and culture. This book presents a different E a. Focusing on the years that he lived in Paris, it demonstrates how the periodicals he himself conceived and edited were modeled on dozens of Victorian ones such as the Contemporary Review, the Review of Reviews or the Idler, as well as on some American ones such as the Forum, the Arena, and the North American Review. This book shows us an E a who is undeniably an Anglophile, an E a long seduced by the diversity and originality of English thought, an E a increasingly distant from the French cultural model which had marked his education. Teresa Pinto Coelho is Full Professor and Chair in Anglo-Portuguese Studies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.