Portrait of a Gentleman
Will be published approx. on 3. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-1-0682097-5-8 (ISBN)
Description
Miguel Gomes makes his debut in English with the masterful Portrait of a Gentleman.
The story of Lucio Cavaliero, a Venezuelan writer and cosmopolitan libertine, is a vibrant and thrilling account of carnivalesque exile in New York. Against the backdrop of his home country's political turmoil, Lucio drifts from room to room, bed to bed, living hand to mouth, dragging a sexual secret (literally) while on the run from Chavez's henchman. Lust gives way to love and love to a son's mourning as Lucio visits Italy and Spain searching for beauty and his roots.
A modern-day homage to Rabelais and Roth, Portrait of a Gentleman is a ribald and erudite meditation on poetry, music, language, and the erotic--a portrait of the artist as a middle-aged rake.
The story of Lucio Cavaliero, a Venezuelan writer and cosmopolitan libertine, is a vibrant and thrilling account of carnivalesque exile in New York. Against the backdrop of his home country's political turmoil, Lucio drifts from room to room, bed to bed, living hand to mouth, dragging a sexual secret (literally) while on the run from Chavez's henchman. Lust gives way to love and love to a son's mourning as Lucio visits Italy and Spain searching for beauty and his roots.
A modern-day homage to Rabelais and Roth, Portrait of a Gentleman is a ribald and erudite meditation on poetry, music, language, and the erotic--a portrait of the artist as a middle-aged rake.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0682097-5-8 (9781068209758)
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MIGUEL GOMES (1964) was born in Caracas to Portuguese parents and educated in Venezuela and Portugal. He has lived in the United States since 1989, where he has pursued a career as a scholar. The author of several works of fiction, his writing explores themes of memory, displacement, and cultural hybridity. He has been the recipient of the Caracas Municipal Prize for Literature, and has twice won the yearly short story prize awarded by the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional. His debut novel Portrait of a Gentleman was originally published by Seix Barral in 2015.
ADRIAN NATHAN WEST is a literary translator from Spanish, German, Catalan, and French. He is mostly known for his translations of When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz. His other works and criticism has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the TLS, the LRB, and many other publications. His debut novel My Father's Diet was published in 2022. His next novel Aerostasis will be published by Thousand Horsemen Press in 2027.
ADRIAN NATHAN WEST is a literary translator from Spanish, German, Catalan, and French. He is mostly known for his translations of When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz. His other works and criticism has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the TLS, the LRB, and many other publications. His debut novel My Father's Diet was published in 2022. His next novel Aerostasis will be published by Thousand Horsemen Press in 2027.