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Geschichte der Belagerung von Lissabon

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14.-33. Tausend Oktober 1998
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April 24, 2023 | History
An edition of História do cerco de Lisboa (1989)

Geschichte der Belagerung von Lissabon

Roman

14.-33. Tausend Oktober 1998
  • 9 Want to read

Raimundo Silva, a proofreader at a Portuguese publishing house, takes it upon himself to alter a key word in a text to make it read that in 1147 the king of Portugal reconquered Lisbon from the Saracens without any assistance from the Crusaders. His revision of a signal episode in Portuguese history unexpectedly and inexplicably wins the heart of his supervisor, Maria Sara, a woman of unwavering conviction.

Rather than fire him as she ought to, Maria encourages Raimundo to rewrite the history of the siege of Lisbon in the grand style of a historical romance. Around this seemingly minor episode Jose Saramago constructs a broad, multifaceted tableau involving meditations on historiography and the uses and abuses of language, a parable of life under authoritarian rule, and a bittersweet romance.

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Rowohlt
Language
German
Pages
424

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Cover of: Geschichte der Belagerung von Lissabon
Geschichte der Belagerung von Lissabon: Roman
1998-10, Rowohlt
Taschenbuch in German - 14.-33. Tausend Oktober 1998
Cover of: The history of the Siege of Lisbon
The history of the Siege of Lisbon
1996, Harvill
in English
Cover of: The history of the siege of Lisbon
The history of the siege of Lisbon
1996, Harcourt Brace
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: História do cerco de Lisboa
História do cerco de Lisboa: romance
1989, Caminho
in Portuguese
Cover of: The history of the siege of Lisbon
The history of the siege of Lisbon
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Copyright Date
1989; 1992
Translation Of
História do cerco de Lisboa
Translated From
Portuguese

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Taschenbuch
Number of pages
424

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OL47675842M
ISBN 10
3499223074

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