by Eça de Queirós · Books4pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492516353
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«El mandarín» is the short novel by Eça de Queirós, published by Books4pocket in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
In a remote corner of China lives an immensely rich mandarin, about whom nothing is known. A small bell beside a book offers whoever rings it the chance to inherit his fortune, at the cost of the mandarin dying instantly in Mongolia. The narrative turns this pact into an ironic reflection on ambition, conscience, and the price of money.
The work was originally published in 1880 under the title O Mandarim. This Spanish-language edition is the first from Books4pocket.
For readers of European classics and short fiction seeking a tale with irony and moral depth.
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. In the London Observer, Jonathan Keates ranked him alongside Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.
