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Lisbon Tales Helen Constantine

Lisbon Tales By Helen Constantine

Lisbon Tales by Helen Constantine


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Summary

A selection of newly translated short stories centred on Lisbon represent the literary heritage and culture of this diverse and extraordinary city. From famous names to new voices, Lisbon Tales describes a city in continuous and vibrant change.

Lisbon Tales Summary

Lisbon Tales by Helen Constantine

Lisbon has been an extraordinary city for well over a thousand years, rendering it a place of great historical and contemporary interest. The combination of cultural influences in Lisbon-Arabian, African, and European-and the city's identity as a great seafaring stronghold, has granted it a unique and spirited legacy. Lisbon Tales reflects this legacy in its literary selections. From famous names to new voices, Lisbon Tales describes a city in continuous and vibrant change.

Lisbon Tales Reviews

A slice of Lisbon to form a tantalizing tart of tales. * Lonnie Weatherby, Library Journal *
Lisbon Tales is another excellent installment in this series of books, and they'd all make the perfect addition to the bookshelves of any armchair travellers you might know! * Karen Langley, Shiny New Books *
There are many fine inclusions here, with excellent stories by authors who will be largely unknown in the English-speaking world ... The rendering of the stories in English is fluent, appealing, and ... faithful to the original, with helpful explanatory footnotes added when required ... There is much to enjoy in this collection. * David Frier, Words Without Borders *
This panorama, proffered in elegant but natural English, is one of the main strengths of Lisbon Tales, leaving aside the intrinsic merits of the stories and cronicas themselves, and Hopkinson's translations are a welcome addition to the repertoire of Portuguese works available to English-speaking readers. * Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta, Translation and Literature *

About Helen Constantine

Amanda Hopkinson is a literary translator, former Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, and Professor of Literary Translation at City, University of London.

Table of Contents

Picture Credits General Introduction, Helen Constantine Introduction, Amanda Hopkinson 1. Alves & Co, Eca de Queiroz 2. A Clerical Afternoon, Fernando Pessoa 3. Lost Refuge, Soeiro Pereira Gomes 4. The Accident, Jose Rodrigues Migueis 5. The Whistler, Mario Dionisio 6. The Fiance, Augustina Bessa-Luis 7. Walking in Lisbon, Jose Saramago 8. Cais-do-Sodre Station, Orlanda Amarilis 9. Still Life with Head of Bream, Teolinda Gersao 10. Collectors, Mario de Carvalho 11. Metro Zoo, Helia Correia 12. The Companions, Mauro Pinheiro 13. Kizombar, Kalaf Angelo 14. The Time When, Kalaf Angelo Notes on the Authors Further Reading Publishers Acknowledgements Map of Lisbon

Additional information

GOR009847249
9780198801078
0198801076
Lisbon Tales by Helen Constantine
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2019-05-15
240
N/A
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