The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Camoes, Luis Vaz De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192801511 ISBN 13: 9780192801517

Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks, 2001

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Book by de Cames Lus Vaz

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First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes's narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India and the Far East. The poem's twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, and its celebration of a turning point in mankind's knowledge of the world unites the old map of the heavens with the newly discovered terrain on earth. Yet it speaks powerfully, too, of the precariousness of power, and of the rise and decline of nationhood, threatened not only from without by enemies, but from within by loss of integrity and vision. The first translation of The Lusiads for almost half a century, this new edition is complemented by an illuminating introduction and extensive notes.

Biografía del autor:

Landeg White is Former Director, Centre for Southern African Studies, University of York and former editor of Journal of Southern African Studies (OUP); published poet and author of works on colonialism, Apartheid and African poetry. His latest book is Bridging the Zambezi: a Colonial Folly (Macmillan 1993)

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• Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0192801511
• ISBN 13: 9780192801517
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: White Landeg