Carlos is the talented heir to a notable family in fin-de-siecle
Lisbon. He aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession
of medicine, in the arts and in politics. But he enters a society
affected by powerful international influences - French intellectual
developments, English trading practices - that trouble and
frustrate him and in the end he is reduced to a kind of spiritual
helplessness. Carlos' good intentions decline, amiably, into
dilettantism; his passionate love affair itself begins to suffer a
devastating constraint. "The Maias" tells a compelling story of
characters whose lives become as real and engrossing as any in
Flaubert, Balzac or Dickens. This is his masterpiece, a novel of
intellectual depth, historical compassion and great wit. Hailed as
a masterpiece in the Paris of Flaubert, Balzac and Zola, this
remains Eca's most popular novel.
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