Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
By: Jose Saramago.
Contributors: Pontiero, Giovanni.
Publisher: Harvill
Published: 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
First sentence: Here the sea ends and the earth begins.
Description: After the death of the poet Fernanso Pessoa, one of his alter-ego(s), Ricardo Reis, comes to Lisbon to visit the grave of Pessoa. What follows is the endless reveries of duality which wakes and subsides in a man walking to find his own grave and lost breath. Each sentence reverberates life, disconnection and perhaps the bridge, art.
Notes: Translated from the Portuguese G. Pontiero.