by Eça de Queirós · Publicações Europa-América · tapa blanda · ISBN 5601072407435
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«O Crime do Padre Amaro» is the novel by Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós, published by Publicações Europa-América in paperback (in Portuguese).
The story centres on Amaro, a young priest who settles in a small town and is drawn into moral and passionate conflicts. The work portrays religious hypocrisy and the contradictions of the clergy in nineteenth-century Portuguese society, with celibacy, power and corruption as its axes.
This edition from Publicações Europa-América was published in 2000 within the Grandes Obras collection and includes the complete text.
For readers of classic Portuguese literature and novels of social and religious criticism.
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.
