José Saramago - The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
José Saramago - The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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Vendor : Mercearia de Portugal
Product Type : Literature
Book recommended by the National Reading Plan, Secondary Education, Independent Reading "A multiple time. Labyrinthine. The histories of human societies. Ricardo Reis arrives in Lisbon in late December 1935. He stays until September 1936. A character from another fiction, that of Fernando Pessoa's heteronymy. And an inverse movement, right at the beginning: "Here where the sea ends and the land begins"; the turning of Camões' verse upside down: "Where the land ends and the sea begins." In Camões, the movement is from land to sea; in Saramago's book, we have Ricardo Reis returning to Portugal by sea. The epic movement of departure is replaced. Once again, history in Saramago's writing. And the relationships between life and death. Ricardo Reis arrives in Lisbon in late December, and Fernando Pessoa died on November 30th. Ricardo Reis visits him at the cemetery. A complex time. Fascism is consolidating in Portugal.» (Diário de Notícias, October 9, 1998)
