Eça de Queirós

José Maria de Eça de Queirós

Ea de Queirs's novel is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal during a period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune.

Scenes from the Religious Life

The Crime of Father Amaro

Harrie Lemmens

Het decadente leven in Parijs eind 19e eeuw staat in groot contrast met dat op het Portugese platteland in dezelfde tijd.

De stad en de bergen

J. Rentes de Carvalho

Het leven van een gelukkig getrouwde vrouw in Lissabon wordt verstoord als haar neef, met wie zij ooit een korte romance had, haar opnieuw het hof maakt.

Neef Bazilio

cenas da vida devota

O crime do Padre Amaro

A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master 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 terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful 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 his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.

José Maria de Eça de Queirós

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