{"title":"Jose Maria Eca De Queiros","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"a-correspondencia-de-fradique-mendes-book-jose-maria-eca-de-queiros-9781236697998","title":"A A Correspondencia de Fradique Mendes","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533585359121,"sku":"GOR012340205","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1236697995.jpg?v=1750710758"},{"product_id":"el-crimen-del-padre-amaro-father-amaro-s-crime-book-jose-maria-eca-de-queiros-9788491053200","title":"El El crimen del padre Amaro \/ Father Amaro's Crime","description":"\u003cb\u003eLos mejores libros jamás escritos.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e«Por dentro se movían silenciosamente los deseos, como serpientes tranquilas en su nido.»\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Amado Vieira es un joven sacerdote que consigue ser trasladado de la parroquia rural en la que ejerce a otra en la bella ciudad de Leiría. Una vez allí, se ve inmerso en un ambiente de libertinaje y desenfreno, al que es arrastrado por un grupo de sacerdotes de la localidad; uno de ellos incluso llega a alojarle en casa de su amante. Es allí donde Amaro conoce a Amélia, la muchacha más hermosa de la ciudad y que devendrá la causa de su perdición. La publicación de esta obra, en 1875, desató un escándalo en el país no solo por el deseo del autor de ridiculizar al clero, sino también por su denuncia de la hipocresía de la sociedad de provincias.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e La presente edición incluye una introducción a cargo del escritor portugués José Luís Peixoto, quien conduce al lector hacia los entresijos de la obra que consagró a Eça de Queirós como una de las grandes figuras de la literatura universal.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAn unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter, made into an acclaimed and controversial motion picture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Eça de Queirós's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Crime of Father Amaro\u003c\/i\u003e is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune. At the start, a priest physically explodes after a fish supper while guests at a birthday celebration are \"wildly dancing a polka.\" Young Father Amaro (whose name means \"bitter\" in Portuguese) arrives in Leira and soon lusts after--and is lusted after by--budding Amelia, dewy-lipped, devout daughter of Sao Joaneira who has taken in Father Amaro as a lodger.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What ensues is a secret love affair amidst a host of compelling minor characters: Canon Dias, glutton and Sao Joaneira's lover; Dona Maria da Assuncao, a wealthy widow with a roomful of religious images, agog at any hint of sex; Joao Eduardo, repressed atheist, free-thinker and suitor to Amelia; Father Brito, \"the strongest and most stupid priest in the diocese\"; the administrator of the municipal council who spies at a neighbor's wife through binoculars for hours every day.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Eça's incisive critique flies like a shattering mirror, jabbing everything from the hypocrisy of a rich and powerful Church, to the provincialism of men and women in Portuguese society of the time, to the ineptness of politics or science as antidotes to the town's ills. What lurks within Eça's narrative is a religion of tolerance, wisdom, and equality nearly forgotten. Margaret Jull Costa has rendered an exquisite translation and provides an informative introduction to a story that truly spans all ages.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50419648069905,"sku":"CIN8491053204G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8491053204.jpg?v=1751417262"},{"product_id":"falling-snow-and-other-stories-book-jose-maria-eca-de-queiros-9780813235042","title":"The Falling Snow and Other Stories","description":"The great nineteenth-century Portuguese author José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) has long been known for his novels, especially The Crime of Father Amaro (1880) and The Maias (1888). However, he also wrote short stories, and a number of them, having stood the test of time, are now regarded as masterpieces. Although there is no question that Eça owes the lion's share of his reputation to his long fiction, the tales in this collection tell us that we are reading the work of a writer in full control of both genres.  The eleven selections range widely in theme and length and, except for \"The Catastrophe\"(which was published posthumously), are arranged in order of the year of publication. \"The Falling Snow\" and \"Master Devil\" contain elements of both the fantastic and realistic, a number of which call to mind Edgar Allan Poe, a writer whom Eça read and greatly admired. The power of love becomes the obsession of love in \"The Peculiarities of a Blonde Girl\" and \"José Matias,\" two of the stories that stand at the pinnacle of Eça's reputation as a short story writer. \"Civilization\" will speak to nostalgia for a rustic life, while \"Perfection\" searches, through Ulysses and a special goddess, into a different kind of life, one without blemish. Other tales explore the nature of sacrifice (\"The Wet Nurse\"), greed and betrayal (\"The Treasure\"), jealousy and vengeance (\"The Dead Man\"), and faith in a young rabbi named Jesus (\"The Gentle Miracle\"). No one knows why Eça withheld publication of \"The Catastrophe,\" but this powerful story engages us with its naked intensity, its aroused passion, and its blunt honesty, for it amounts to a ringing endorsement of the exalted meaning of patriotism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51008054952209,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008058425617,"sku":"NIN9780813235042","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813235049.jpg?v=1757415563"},{"product_id":"la-reliquia-book-jose-maria-eca-de-queiros-9781530885633","title":"La reliquia","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51034007961873,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51034010353937,"sku":"NIN9781530885633","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1530885639.jpg?v=1750861805"},{"product_id":"el-primo-basilio-book-jose-maria-eca-de-queiros-9781530916276","title":"El primo Basilio","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51034266468625,"sku":"NIN9781530916276","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1530916275.jpg?v=1751087222"},{"product_id":"relic-book-jose-maria-eca-de-queiros-9780813236599","title":"The Relic","description":"The Relic tells the story of an orphaned young man, Teodorico Raposo, who is brought to Lisbon from a provincial town in Portugal to live with his aunt, a rigid, stern—and oftentimes—forbidding Catholic. Her devout circle of acquaintances is made up almost entirely of priests, many of whom are more concerned with appearances than spirituality, and seeking her and their approval, Teodorico is driven to attend Mass, say rosaries, and frequent churches, all the while awakening to sensuality, women, and the material life in conflict with \"Auntie's\" devotions, which are—inwardly—devoid of the charity preached by Christ.  When Teodorico obtains a degree from the University of Coimbra, Auntie sends him to the Holy Land to search for a relic to cure her ills. He meets up with a learned German author and, after a sojourn to Egypt, the two make their way to the land trod by Jesus. It is there that Teodorico has the dream that takes up nearly one third of the novel: he witnesses the travails that lead to the Passion and Crucifixion, as well as the aftermath of Christ's death.  Faced now with his mission, Teodorico embarks on a search. He soon comes upon an item, a \"true\" relic authenticated by his German friend, the sanctity of which will send Auntie to the heights of spiritual bliss, so much so that she will make him her heir. 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