by Eça de Queirós · Editorial Caminho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726183457
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«O Crime do Padre Amaro» is the Portuguese realist novel written by Eça de Queirós, published by Editorial Caminho in paperback, in Portuguese.
The narrative follows the young priest Amaro Vieira as he arrives in Leiria and builds relationships with his community. In that provincial setting, desires, devotion, and conveniences intersect, and the plot reveals the hypocrisy of the clergy and nineteenth-century bourgeois society, with an ironic gaze and detailed costumbrismo.
It is a work suitable for readers of Portuguese literature and nineteenth-century realist classics.
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.
