Results for "Jull Costa, Margaret"

One of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century, the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo now has a translator worthy of his genius

The Peruvian poet César Vallejo—one of Latin America’s most famous poets—was involved in various literary circles and began publishing his poems in 1914 in magazines...

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A bilingual collection of exquisite poems and prose by one of Fernando Pessoa’s most famous “heteronyms,” Ricardo Reis

Here is the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa’s celebrated “heteronyms.” Fernando Pessoa did not simply write under pseudonyms—he created a coterie of imagined...

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"There is no doubting the authenticity of Carvalho's vision and the originality and severity of her voice." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books

For ten years Dora has ritualistically mourned her husband's death, a pointless ritual that forced her to rely on support from old friends and...

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Two friends are kidnapped by several masked men, who, to judge by their manners and their accent are men of the best society. One of the friends is a doctor, and the masked men say that they need him to assist a noblewoman, who is about to give birth. When they reach the house, they find no such...

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Mr Richard Whitestone is English and a successful businessman based for many years in Oporto. Despite his many years' residence in Portugal, he remains resolutely English in his tastes and in his accent. His favourite reading is Tristram Shandy, which he reads and re-reads constantly. A widower for...

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Eca de Queiroz began his career as a self-declared realist, but as his writing evolved, his novels and stories became a potent blend of realism and fantasy.

In this volume, comprising one short novel and six short stories, the reader is introduced to a dazzling variety of worlds and characters -- a...

Read More about Alves and Co: And Other Stories (Dedalus European Classics)

Teodorico Raposo, the novel's anti-hero, is a master of deceit; one minute feigning devotion in front of his rich, pious aunt, in order to inherit her money, the next indulging in debauchery. Spurred on by the desire to please his aunt, and in order to get away from his unfaithful mistress, he...

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A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers
 
“One of the essential writers of our tormented times.”—Alberto Manguel, Times Literary Supplement
 
“Little prepares one for this extraordinary book, in which each chapter...

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This is the first English translation of The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui, a picaresque novel in which the hero, a magical little boy, goes in search not of his fortune but of knowledge, growing both wiser and possibly sadder in the process.


'In his dedication, Ferlosio describes this...

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