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A voyage to India : contemporary melancholy (a journey)
- Title
- A voyage to India : contemporary melancholy (a journey) / Gonçalo M. Tavares ; translated by Rhett McNeil.
- Author
- Tavares, Gonçalo M., 1970-
- Publication
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-881 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McNeil, Rhett
- Description
- 410 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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."--
- Uniform Title
- Viagem à Índia. English
- Alternative Title
- Viagem à Índia.
- Subject
- Portuguese poetry > 21st century
- Note
- Poem.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-881
- ISBN
- 9781628971606
- 1628971606
- LCCN
- 2016031192
- OCLC
- 969934966
- Author
- Tavares, Gonçalo M., 1970- author.
- Title
- A voyage to India : contemporary melancholy (a journey) / Gonçalo M. Tavares ; translated by Rhett McNeil.
- Publisher
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First Dalkey Archive edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Added Author
- McNeil, Rhett, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-881