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Happy Easter

José Rodrigues Miguéis ; translated from the Portuguese by John Byrne

(From the Portuguese, 2)

Carcanet in association with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro, Instituto Camões, 1995

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Páscoa feliz

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Translation of: Páscoa feliz

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Description

Written in 1927, Josae Rodrigues Miguaeis's "Happy Easter "was a potent challenge to the realism which had dominated the landscape of European fiction. This brief novel remains a vivid and challenging work: it has long been celebrated in Portugal and throughout the Continent as a radical classic. Here it is translated into English for the first time. The protagonist, a singularly imaginative individual, suffers symptoms of paranoia and schizophrenia. Shut into himself, isolated from the world but not ignorant of it, he lives out a fantasy as a protest against the humiliation and hostility which, as he gradually reveals, have shaped him since childhood. Yet there, in the asylum he inhabits, he declares triumphantly that he has found his true self.

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  • NCID
    BA88332100
  • ISBN
    • 1857542045
  • LCCN
    96134842
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    por
  • Place of Publication
    Manchester
  • Pages/Volumes
    115 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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