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02576aam a2200397 i 4500 001 CC13AAC400A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 160826t20162016txua 000 p eng 010 $a 2016031192 020 $a 1628971606 020 $a 9781628971606 035 $a (OCoLC)959372114 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OBE $d YUS $d STF $d OCLCO $d PUL $d OCLCF $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h por 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-po--- $a e-po--- 050 00 $a PQ9282 A89 V5313 2016 100 1 $a Tavares, Goncʹalo M., $d 1970- $e author. 240 10 $a Viagem a India. $l English 245 12 $a A voyage to India : $b contemporary melancholy (a journey) / $c Goncʹalo M. Tavares ; translated by Rhett McNeil. 250 $a First Dalkey Archive edition. 264 1 $a Victoria, TX : $b Dalkey Archive Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 410, [20] pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Portuguese literature series 500 $a Poem. 520 $a "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 Camoes'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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from the Portuguese. 650 0 $a Portuguese poetry $y 21st century. 700 1 $a McNeil, Rhett, $e translator. 830 0 $a Portuguese literature series. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212014741.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170706034714.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CC13AAC400A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search