Eca de Queiros was Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelist, whose works brilliantly evoke -- and condemn -- the rapidly changing society of his times. The Maias (1888) depicts the declining fortunes of a landowning family over three generations as they are gradually undermined by hypocrisy, complacency, and sexual license. With a vivid, comprehensive portrayal of nineteenth-century Portuguese politics and social history, Eca creates a kind of comedie humaine that, despite the force of its social satire and its damning critique of the Portugal from which he had exiled himself, is a supreme work of humor and irony.The author was a diplomat who traveled widely, and although he claimed to be an apostle of naturalist realism, he reveals with detached irony the lethargy and decadence of his native land. The book initially attracted attention through its account of an incestuous romance, yet today we can see this as just one element in a novel whose compelling story, depth of thought, and compassion make it one of Europe's great literary masterpieces.

The Maias

Literature & Fiction

DE QUEIROZ, EÇA

Stevens, Ann

Pinheiro, Patricia McGowan

Genre Fiction

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

1930. With an introduction by John Garrett Underhill. Novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading intellectuals of the Generation of 1870. Eca de Queiroz introduced naturalism and realism to Portuguese literature. He is considered the major novelist of his generation. The Relic was a picaresque story of religious hypocrisy and truth. Its writing coincided with his marriage and drew on the travels with his wife's brother to Egypt and the Near East. The young Teodorico wants to escape from the chains of his religious home. He visits Jerusalem to acquire a healing relic, soon he is transported back in time with his companion, the German scholar Topsius, and meets Jesus himself, witnessing the crucifixion. He sees the still-living Jesus is smuggled in a grave, and after adventures Teodorico returns back to his own century.

The Relic

Queirós, Eça de

Hippocrene Books

"Eça de Queiros (1845-1900) ought to be," as the London Observer stated, "up there with Balzac, Dickens, and Tolstoy as one of the talismanic names of the nineteenth century." His superlative penultimate novel, The Illustrious House of Ramires (1900) centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to the most noble family of Portugal. Gonçalo, charming but disastrously effete, muddles through his life while writing a historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his ancestors. "The record of their valour is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, he is continually humiliated [but he] is at the same time kindhearted .... Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel .... Eça de Queiros has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal."(The London Spectator)

The Illustrious House of Ramires (Revived Modern Classic)

Stevens, Anne

Eça de Queirós

Humor & Satire

New Directions

José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with, as he said, "no digressions, no rhetoric," where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns Godofredo Alves, a successful, buoyant businessman who returns home to find his wife "on the yellow damask sofa... leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man..." The man is none other than Machado, his best friend and business partner. Godofredo struggles with the public need to defend his honor, and a stronger inner desire for forgiveness and domestic tranquillity. The Babel Guide to Portuguese Fiction notes, "The genius of this book is how Eça captures all the emotional fluctuations... and with such accuracy. The result is an enjoyable humorous novella that is simultaneously breathtakingly ironic." The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac and Tolstoy.

The Yellow Sofa (New Directions Classics)

Eça de Queirós, José Maria

Eca de Queiroz's sharply satirical work aimed to expose the hypocrisies of his age. In The Mandarin his lascivious anti-heroes Teodoro and Teodorico,are dragged from their narrow Lisbon lives into exotic encounters with Chinese mandarins, the Devil (in the guise of a dark-suited civil servant)and Jesus Christ Himself. This short novel is accompanied by the short stories Jose Matias, The Hanged Man and The Idiosyncrasies of a young blonde woman.

The Mandarin and Other Stories (Dedalus European Classics)

Contemporary

Dedalus Limited

Cousin Bazilio is a tale of sexual folly and hypocrisy and vividly depicts life in nineteenth-century lisbon. Eca gives us a whole gallery of characters from Bazilio, the suave villain to Jorge, the smugly uxorious husband, from Luiza, the bored empty-headed wife to Juliana, the plain, ailing maidservant desperate, by whatever means, to grab some of life's little luxuries, from Leopoldina, nicknamed' the Ever-Open Door', to Joana the cook and her affair with the tubercular carpenter who lives opposite, and the voluminous Dona Felidade who nurses an entirely unrequited passion for the unbearably pompous Acacio, who lives in concubinage with his much younger housekeeper, who is also having an affair... 'Adultery, blackmail, sentimentality and lust all come under Ecaâ€™s scrutiny. Sins are scattered amid a gallery of vivid characters, central of which are the adulterous heroine, her first love, the cuckolded husband, and most importantly, the maid. This cunning portrayal of life below stairs casts a cold eye across the hypocrisy of 'respectability,' recreating the sultry summer heat of Lisbon and the tensions and passions underlying both the refinements of the wealthy and the loyalty of the servants. Sheer brilliance.' The Good Book Guide

Cousin Bazilio (Dedalus European Classics)

Literary

O Crime do Padre Amaro é uma das obras do escritor português Eça de Queirós mais difundidas por todo o mundo. Trata-se de uma obra polêmica, que causou protestos da Igreja Católica, ao ser publicada em 1875, em Portugal. Esta obra é mais um documento humano e social do país e da sua época escrito com a maestria de Eça de Queirós. É também a primeira realização artística do realismo portugués.

O CRIME DO PADRE AMARO: SCENAS DA VIDA DEVOTA (Portuguese Edition)

Classics

Independently published

Os Maias é uma das obras mais conhecidas do grande escritor português Eça de Queiroz. A obra ocupa-se da história de uma família (Maia) ao longo de três gerações, centrando-se depois na última com a história de amor entre Carlos da Maia e Maria Eduarda.

OS MAIAS: EPISODIOS DA VIDA ROMANTICA (Portuguese Edition)

Depois de criticar a prov#65533;ncia em "O Crime do Padre Amaro", nesta obra E#65533;a volta-se agora para a cidade, a fim de sondar e analisar as mesmas mazelas, desta vez na capital: para tanto, enfoca um lar burgu#65533;s aparentemente feliz e perfeito... Jos#65533; Maria de E#65533;a de Queiroz foi um dos mais importantes autores de romances de reconhecida import#65533;ncia, de "Os Maias" (considerado por muitos o melhor romance realista portugu#65533;s do s#65533;culo XIX) e "O Crime do Padre Amaro" entre outros.

O Primo Basílio (Portuguese Edition)

Romance

de Queiroz, José Maria de Eça

Paranormal

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Les Maia

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