Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Informationen zum Autor José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda . A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010. Klappentext The Portuguese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature exercises his capacity for darkness, intellectual inquiry and humour across these reissued selections. "Kirkus" prescribes Saramago's work for 'those who appreciate finely wrought, meditative prose.' Zusammenfassung The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Saramago, José Saramago
• Assisted by: Giovanni Pontiero (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.1998
• EAN: 9781860465024
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-502-4
• No. of pages: 358
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Portugiesische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)