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The MaiasEca de QueirosTranslated by Patricia McGowan and Ann Stevens![]()
Categories: 19th Century, Portuguese
Imprint: Aspects of Portugal Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (634 pages) (Pub. Mar 2002) 9781857546088 £29.99 £26.99
Carlos, heir to a notable fin-de-siècle Lisbon family, aspires to serve his fellow men as a doctor, in the arts and politics. But Lisbon society is so subject to international pressures that he cannot succeed and declines into amiable dilletantism. Hailed as a masterpiece in the Paris of Flaubert, Balzac and Zola, this remains Eça's most popular novel.
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