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As the Inquisition rages, an extraordinary trinity struggle to realise a creation that will fly in the face of the monstrous vanity of Church and State. In early 18th-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where his mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by a love of unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the Crown and the Church clash, they pursue his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.
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Baltasar & Blimunda, José Saramango
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- Pubblicato
- 1998
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- Titolo
- Baltasar & Blimunda
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- José Saramango
- Editore
- Harvill Press
- Pubblicato
- 1998
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 1860462642
- ISBN13
- 9781860462641
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Prosa storica, Classici, Realismo magico, XVIII secolo, Premio Nobel, Portogallo, Letteratura portoghese
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1984
- Titolo originale
- Memorial do Convento
- Valutazione
- 4 su 5
- Descrizione
- As the Inquisition rages, an extraordinary trinity struggle to realise a creation that will fly in the face of the monstrous vanity of Church and State. In early 18th-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where his mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by a love of unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the Crown and the Church clash, they pursue his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.