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The Maias (Paperback)
Eca De Queiroz; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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R466
Discovery Miles 4 660
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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.
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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The Relic (Paperback)
Jose Maria De Eca De Queiroz; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa; Introduction by Margaret Jull Costa; Edited by Timothy Lane
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R286
Discovery Miles 2 860
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Eca de Queiroz began his career as a self-declared realist, but as
his writing evolved, his novels and stories became a potent blend
of realism and fantasy. In this volume, comprising one short novel
and six short stories, the reader is introduced to a dazzling
variety of worlds and characters - a deceived husband who finds
that jealousy is not the answer, a lovelorn Greek
poet-turned-waiter working in a Charing Cross hotel, a saintly
young woman soured by love, a follower of St Francis who learns
that an entire life of virtue can be besmirched by one cruel act,
Adam in Paradise pondering the pros and cons of dominion over the
earth, Jesus healing a child, and a loyal nursemaid forced to make
a terrible choice.
Jacinto, an absentee noble from Portugal, revels in joyous extreme
in the latest of French sophistications. Circumstances compel his
return to his family estates where he rediscovers the values and
pleasures of Portuguese traditional life, but there are doubts
about this perfection he finds.
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The Maias (Paperback)
Jose Maria De Eca De Queiros; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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R864
R733
Discovery Miles 7 330
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Set in Lisbon at the close of the nineteenth century, "The Maias"
is both a coming-of-age novel and a passionate romance. Our hero
Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is
rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something
for his country, something useful, something that will make his
beloved grandfather proud. However, Carlos is also a bit of a
dilettante. He drifts along, becoming a doctor and pottering about
in his laboratory, but spends more and more time riding his
splendid horses or visiting the theater, having affairs or reading
novels. His best friend and chief partner in crime, Ega, is
likewise engaged in a long summertime of witticisms and pleasure.
Carlos however is set on a dead reckoning course with fate--with
the love of his life and with a terrible, terrible secret...
Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa
(translator of Jose Saramago's "Blindness"), New Directions is
proud to bring Eca de Queiros' brilliant prose to life for American
readers for the first time.
Jose Maria Eca de Queiros (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. Alipio
Severo Abranhos, born to poor parents in a small town in the north
of Portugal, goes off to spend his boyhood and adolescence with an
aunt whose material well-being constitutes, for him, the lap of
luxury. And he likes and becomes accustomed to luxury. As he
follows a course of study for his bacharel at the University of
Coimbra, certain negative character traits come to the fore, and
upon completion of his degree he leaves behind a pregnant maid to
take up residence in Lisbon. In the capital, he calculates-as a
young man with neither position, nor fortune, nor social
standing-how to get ahead in life. And the path is through marriage
to a young woman of social status and promise of a sizable dowry,
both of which can facilitate his rise in politics and government.
Alipio's weapons, his means, are various modes of hypocrisy-social
hypocrisy, religious hypocrisy, filial hypocrisy, and political
hypocrisy, with dishonesty, cowardice, and a farcical duel thrown
in for good measure. Eca, like all accomplished novelists, does not
tell us what Alipio becomes, rather he lets us see what he becomes,
for with his unerring sense of satire, of character portrayal, and
plot movement he lets the Count of Abranhos, with his steps and
missteps, inform us himself of what he becomes. And with his
actions, Alipio Severo Abranhos emerges as the personification, the
very epitome, of the grim state of politics in nineteenth-century
Portugal, a state engendered by the dogged pursuit of power. And
through the obsequious eyes of Alipio's biographer and the
sycophantic hangers-on who wish to glory in his orbit, readers have
a clear picture of the "great" man-a type who exhibits universal
characteristics not confined to Eca de Queiros's native country,
nor to his time.
The explosive and highly controversial new film of The Crime of
Father Amaro is set in Mexico, in a material and religious culture
of this century not unlike the provincial Portugal where, as a
young man, de Queiros was despatched to train for the consular
service. The Crime of Father Amaro is set in Leiria, a provincial
cathedral city, in which the hypocrisies of churchmen were not far
to seek. Father Amaro, a young man like himself, with a priestly
rather than a diplomatic vocation, falls into a relationship with a
woman, and their tragic story unfolds with a harsh relentlessness.
The situation of women, tightly swaddled in conformities yet
fevered in their illusions of romance, much troubled the young
author in this and later books
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Os Maias (Hardcover)
Eca De Queiroz
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R2,826
R2,627
Discovery Miles 26 270
Save R199 (7%)
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Returning from Brazil, Bazilio tells his cousin Louisa of the brave
new world. His revelation leads to a evastating conclusion. O Primo
Bazilio has a far deeper tragedy than Madame Bovary wrote Roy
Campbell, because the girl involved is . . . a most loveable
character. One of the most tragic novels of the nineteenth century.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
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worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Dragon's Teeth Eca de Queiros Mary Jane Serrano R. F. Fenno
& co., 1896 History; General; History / General
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