Voyage to India
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Word Count
102,500 words, Guess
Page Count
410 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL35510707M
- ISBN-139781628971606
- OCLC Control Number969934966
- OCLC Control Number959372114
- Library of Congress Control Number2016031192
Classifications
- LCCPQ9282.A89V5313 2016
- LCCPQ9282.A89 V5313 2016
Description
A primeira epopeia portuguesa do século XXI. Imagine uma aventura da mesma magnitude de Os Lusíadas, mas que fosse escrita hoje. Um homem que faz uma viagem à Índia, tentando aprender e esquecer no mesmo movimento, traçando um itinerário de uma certa melancolia contemporânea. É assim que os grandes críticos têm definido este livro, escrito por Gonçalo M. Tavares, um dos mais aclamados escritores portugueses da nova geração.
Description
"A Voyage to India is the story of Bloom, our hero, as he makes his way from Lisbon to India in a decidedly non-heroic age. Gone are the galleons, gone is god; so too the swords of the swashbuckler and sacerdotal certainty. In such an era, where is wisdom to be found? Bloom--ever deliberate, ever longwinded--takes his time getting to India, stopping first in London, then Paris and elsewhere in Europe, making friends, encountering enemies, recounting his life story, revealing the reasons for his flight from Lisbon and his vague hopes for and nagging fears about what he might find in India. Or within himself. His is a melancholic itinerary, an attempt to learn and forget. As our narrator flatly declares: "Life proceeds and is monstrous." Parodying The Lusiads, Luis de Camões's sixteenth-century Portuguese epic of seafaring exploration and naval prowess, Tavares's poem is a solemn requiem of sorts, an investigation into the psyche of humankind in a world where the advance of technology outpaces our ability (or desire) to theorize it, the search for wisdom has been abandoned, and old imperialist dreams have revealed themselves to be a postcolonial nightmare."--
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