The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

By (author): "Giovanni Pontiero, José Saramago"
Publish Date: 1984
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
ISBN1860465021
ISBN139781860465024
AsinThe Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Original titleO Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis
The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow.Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier. It is 1936, the clouds of Fascism are gathering ominously above them, so they talk; a wonderful, rambling discourse on art, truth, poetry, philosophy, destiny and love.