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The Crime of Father AmaroEca de QueirosTranslated by Nan Flanagan10% off
Categories: 19th Century, Portuguese
Imprint: Aspects of Portugal Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (354 pages) (Pub. Feb 2003) 9781857546842 £12.95 £11.65
The explosive and highly controversial 2002 film of The Crime of Father Amaro (El crimen del Padre Amaro) is set in Mexico, in a material and religious culture of this century not unlike the provincial Portugal where, as a young man, Eça de Queiros was despatched to train for the consular service. The Crime of Father Amaro is set in Leiria, a provincial cathedral city, in which the hypocrisies of churchmen were not far to seek. Father Amaro, a young man like Eça himself, with a priestly rather than a diplomatic vocation, falls into a relationship with a woman, and their tragic story unfolds with a harsh relentlessness. The situation of women, tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their illusions of romance, much troubled the young author in this and later books.
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