The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma

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The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma

Editorial: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-01-4139-570-8

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141395708

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 272

Fecha de publicación: 2014-06-05

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4139-571-5

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141395715

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 226

Fecha de publicación: 2014-06-05

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma

Lima Barreto

Primera publicación: 2014-06-05

'The seed of madness exists in all of us and with no warning may attack, overpower, crush and bury us ... ' Policarpo Quaresma - fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, self-styled visionary - is a defender of all things Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his ventures, whether it is petitioning for Brazil's national language to be changed, buying a farm to prove the richness and fertility of the land, or offering support to government forces as they suppress a military revolt - results in ridicule and disaster. Quixotic and hapless, Quaresma's dreams will eventually be his undoing. Funny, despairing, moving and absurd, Lima Barreto's masterpiece shows a man and a country caught in the violent clash between illusion and reality, hope and decline, sanity and madness.