Illustrious House of Ramires

In a brilliant new translation, the wonderful penultimate novel by Eça de Queirós: “Portugal's greatest novelist” (José Saramago)(Revived Modern Classic)

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."

Intr-o noua traducere stralucitoare, minunatul penultim roman al lui Eça de Queirós: „Cel mai mare romancier al Portugaliei” (José Saramago) (Revived Modern Classic) Ilustra Casa lui Ramires, prezentata aici intr-o noua traducere stralucitoare de Margaret Jull Costa, este favorita roman al multor pasionati de Eça de Queirós.