Baltasar and Blimunda / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Publication details: San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998.Edition: 1st Harvest edDescription: 343 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0156005204
- 9780156005203
- 0151105553
- 9780151105557
- 0156006251
- 9780156006255
- Memorial do convento. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From José Saramago, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Baltasar and Blimunda is a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (The New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. Portugal, 1711: an amorous friar is pursued naked through the rubble-strewn streets of Lisbon; an enthusiastic procession of flagellants roars with pleasure over the damnation of adultery; a royal prince uses hapless sailors for target practice; and women dressed in colorful finery watch as lapsed converts and sorcerers are put to death by flames. In the midst of the terrors of the Inquisition and the plague, a seemingly mismatched couple discover the wonders of love. This poetic tale, graced with exquisite historical details and full of magic and adventure, is a tapestry of human folly and human will.
"Portugal, 1711: ... In the midst of the terrors of the Inquisition and the plague, a seemingly mismatched couple discovers the wonders of love. This poetic tale, graced with exquisite historical detail and full of magic and adventure, is a tapestry of human folly and human will."--Back cover.