The illustrious House of Ramires
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Author
Contributors
Costa, Margaret Jull, translator.
Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Edition
First American paperback edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First American paperback edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"Published by arrangement with The Dedalus Press, London" -- Verso title page.
General Note
"Originally published in Portguese as A Ilustre Casa de Ramires in 1900" [Porto, Lello & irmão] -- Verso title page.
Description
Eça de Queiros's superlative novel The Illustrious House of Ramires (originally published in 1900) is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa. The favorite novel of many Eça de Queiros 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, he is continually humiliated [but he] is at the same time kind hearted. Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel .... Eça de Queiros has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal" -- Verso title page.
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