by José Maria Eça de Queiroz · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432039966
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«La ilustre casa de Ramires» is the novel by José Maria Eça de Queiroz, published by Planeta in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Gonçalo Mendes Ramires, last descendant of a noble Portuguese family, sets out to restore the prestige of his lineage by writing a historical novel about a medieval ancestor. Between provincial life and the echoes of family greatness, the work portrays with irony the decline of the aristocracy and the search for identity in nineteenth-century Portugal.
Novel originally published in 1900. This edition, from the Planeta Universal Classics collection, includes an introduction by Elena Losada and a translation by Rafael Morales.
Recommended for readers of classic fiction and nineteenth-century Portuguese literature.
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.
