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The illustrious House of Ramires
Eًca de Queiros's superlative novel The Illustrious House of Ramires (originally published in 1900) is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa. The favorite novel of many Eًca de Queiros aficionados, this late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonًcalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal. Gonًcalo--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, he is continually humiliated [but he] is at the same time kind hearted. Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel .... Eًca de Queiros has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal\" -- Verso title page.
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The Relic
A satiric masterpiece, one of the funniest novels in European literature, and a profound critique of religion, science, and history
The Relic is an irreverent fictional autobiography narrating the picaresque adventures of Teodorico, a Portuguese playboy determined to be the sole heir of his absurdly pious, sexually repressed, and tyrannical Auntie. Sent to the Holy Land, he returns with what he presumes is the “relic of relics” in hopes of persuading Auntie to bequeath her vast fortune to him. While in Jerusalem, Teodorico has a vision in which he witnesses Christ’s trial and crucifixion and the founding of Christianity—with a twist.
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