by Eça de Queirós · Publicacoes Europa-America · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789721013414
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«Os Maias: episódios da vida romântica» is the realist novel by Eça de Queirós, published by Publicacoes Europa-America in paperback (605 pages).
A novel portraying nineteenth-century Lisbon high society through three generations of the Maia family, with Carlos, raised by his grandfather after his mother's flight and his father's suicide. His relationship with Maria Eduarda triggers a love affair set against conventions, and social criticism unfolds with irony amid the country's decline.
The work was originally published in 1888 and belongs to the Portuguese realist movement, within the country's literary canon.
For readers of realism and nineteenth-century Portuguese literary 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.
