| The Illustrious House of Ramires Contributor(s): de Eça de Queirós, José Maria (Author), Costa, Margaret Jull (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811226026 ISBN-13: 9780811226028 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2017000397 |
| Series: Revived Modern Classic |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.85 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jull Costa, Margaret: - Margaret Jull Costa, the three-time winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, has also won the International IMPAC Dublin Prize and the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, among many others.De Eca De Queiros, Jose Maria: - 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. |