José Maria De Eça De Queirós - Böcker

Eça de Queirós's novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune. At the start, a priest physically explodes after a fish supper while...

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José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) "no digressions, no rhetoric," creating a book where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a t...

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José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) was a Portuguese author in the realist style, whose work has been translated into 20 languages. The Count of Abranhos was published posthumously, and this is the first time it has been translated into English....

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The great nineteenth-century Portuguese author José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) has long been known for his novels, especially The Crime of Father Amaro (1880) and The Maias (1888). However, he also wrote short stories, and a number of them, ...

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The Relic tells the story of an orphaned young man, Teodorico Raposo, who is brought to Lisbon from a provincial town in Portugal to live with his aunt, a rigid, stern-and oftentimes-forbidding Catholic. Her devout circle of acquaintances is made ...

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The Relic is an irreverent fictional autobiography narrating the picaresque adventures of Teodorico, a Portuguese playboy determined to be the sole heir of his absurdly pious, sexually repressed, and tyrannical Auntie. Sent to the Holy Land, he re...

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José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) är en av Portugals största författare och hans romaner har utgivits på engelska, tyska, franska och flera andra språk. Ingen av hans böcker har emellertid översatts till svenska tidigare, och föreliggande över...

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En esta novela José Marÿa Eça de Queiroz nos muestra, de manera descarnada, Lo oscuro de la naturaleza humana. Todos los matices posibles de un ser humano, desde los más admirables, pasando por los más siniestros y hasta los más bajos son pu...

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