Editions

  • Home
  • The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781860465024

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 305g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Year of the Death of 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 practising 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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781860465024

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 305g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "The greatest of his novels"

    New Statesman

More from this Author

View all View all
View all View all

About the Author

José Saramago

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.

José Saramago

We use cookies on this site and by continuing to browse it you agree to us sending you cookies.

For more on our cookies and changing your settings click here.