Overview

Three months to live. Jose Maria, a contemplative engineer in late middle age, and now a victim of leukemia, has received a death sentence from his doctor. His life has been a frustrating nonfulfillment of his early hopes, and his musings are many and varied as his life wanes. The Brazilian writer Corcao's remarkable novel is the diary of this thoughtful man facing the imminent prospect of death and trying to find the meaning of life-and of death-while evaluating his own existence.

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Author:   Gustavo Corção ,  Clotilde Wilson
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780292712522

ISBN 10:   0292712529
Pages:   229
Publication Date:   01 January 1967
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Translator’s Preface Part One: Kundry The Announced Visitor In Dr. Aquiles’ Consultation Room “Iván Ilých Saw That He Was Dying and He Was in Continual Despair” Old Deaths Between Goethe and Voltaire Am I Discovering, I Wonder, That the Soul Is Immortal? The More They Demonstrate the Soul’s Immortality, the Less I Believe in It Pedreira Is Finishing His Book Life Is but a Walking Shadow Catarina, Where Did You Put My Childhood? The Encounter in the Campo de Santana There Is a Luciana On a Dream Adriatic Part Two: Burmese Rubies My Roses The General’s Roses The World Reduced to Atoms Comical Errors Dead Jealousies The Coffee-Bar Waitress Who Stands All Day, de marré deci Merry Christmas! My Volumes of Jules Verne In the Blood Gertrude’s Earrings Part Three: Journey to the Center of the Earth Professor Leidenbrock’s Training On the Inside of Things The Broken Clock The Duel with Sirius The Universe à double face Jandira’s Carnival A Priest Went By The Doctor’s Visit Blood Wedding Anniversary The Depths of Subjectivity The Man Who Says Farewell Rosa, Rosae The End of the World

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Gustavo Corção was a journalist and wrote many works about Roman Catholicism.

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