Goncalo M Tavares

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Voyage to IndiaPaperback, 9 December 2016

Voyage to India
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Part of Series
Portuguese Literature
Print Length
494 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Date Published
9 Dec 2016
ISBN-10
1628971606
ISBN-13
9781628971606

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Goncalo M Tavares
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
9 December 2016
Dimensions:
21.59 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm
ISBN-10:
1628971606
ISBN-13:
9781628971606
Language:
English
Pages:
494
Weight:
544.31 gm

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