Can I also suggest the wonderful novel _The Year of the Death of
Ricardo Reis_ by the Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago
(published in the UK by Harvill and in the USA by Harcourt Brace)?
In this novel one of the poetic personae of the historical poet
Fernando Pessoa spends eight months walking around Lisbon
during late 1935 and early 1936,
David Frier.
>
>
> > Dear List members,
> >
> > You have helped me enormously in the past, so I'll ask again! I would be
> > very grateful for any suggestions.
> > My name is Sophia Kanaouti and I am a PhD student at the University of
> > Wales, Cardiff. As part of a research project, I need to trace literary
> > works (but not poems) that talk about walking, preferably but not
> > exclusively in the city.
> >
> > I am interested - mainly but not exclusively once more - in the 'taking
> > your time' variable, of the author her/himself or of a character, and I
> > would like to know about any literary work that comes to your mind, in any
> > language (although if you know of it translated in English - or French)
> > would be a great help).
> >
> > As always, no name and title is self-evident - I am Greek, so I fear the
> > instance when I will miss the most important, even just because I didn't
> > think of it at the right moment, but only a bit later...
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Sophia Kanaouti
> >
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David Frier,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
The University of Leeds,
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UK.
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