Portuguese Irregular Verbs
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Portuguese Irregular Verbs is both the name of a book by Scottish author and academic Alexander McCall Smith, and the name of a fictional book - "the seminal work on Romance philology" and "a lengthy book of some twelve hundred pages" - by the main character, Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld.
The Professor is a troubled German academic whose life's achievement is the eponymous Portuguese Irregular Verbs.
The book relates his early years, his inept early academic life with its troubles, stoic resolve to succeed, inept academic success, various trips as an academic, love found and lost, and most importantly his meeting the other major characters of the book series, Professor Dr Dr (honoris causa) Florianus Prinzel and Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer. They are all at Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, Germany.
The book has eight chapters:
- The Principles of Tennis
- Duels, and How to Fight Them
- Early Irish Pornography
- Italian Matters
- Portuguese Irregular Verbs
- Holy Man
- Dental Pain
- Death in Venice
The illustrations are by Iain McIntosh.
[edit] Book Series
This is one book of a series:
- Portuguese Irregular Verbs]] (2003)
- The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (2003)
- At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (2003)
