Summary
Jose Saramago: The Year of Ricardo Reiš's Death
Ricardo Reis, a Portuguese doctor and poet who returns from exile in Brazil in 1936, reveals the changed face of Lisbon full of secrets, where dream and reality, myth and history, visions of the future and the magic of everyday life are intertwined. He spends most of his time with the spirit of Fernando Pessoa, who after his death, in that form, must spend nine months on Earth, the same number of months every human spends on Earth before his birth. Before he leaves this world with the poet, the protagonist will help the reader to get to know Lisbon from a special angle, its wide avenues and narrow meanders of endless and countless alleys, the poverty of its citizens, the dilapidation of lonely ships in the harbor... and the melancholy of the incessant fog and rain that herald the twilight of Europe.
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