On Emerging from Hyper-Nation : Saramago's Historical Trilogy.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781612493503
- 869.342
- PQ9281.A66 .S687 2014
Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What's in a Smile -- Chapter One: Portuguese Fascism and Literary Institutionality -- Chapter Two: Baltasar and Blimunda: The Readership Pact and the Release of Pleasure -- Chapter Three: Reading the Labyrinth: Text as Obstacle in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis -- Chapter Four: Mastering the Culture's Tool Kit, or "Is the City Still Taken?": The History of the Siege of Lisbon's Self-Invited Reader -- Conclusion: What Has the Smile Brought with It? -- Notes -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Index.
This book presents a critical analysis of Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago's three novels, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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