by Eça de Queirós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789720040183
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«Contos» is the short story collection by Eça de Queirós, published by Porto Editora in 1990 in paperback (300 pages, in Portuguese).
This volume brings together short stories by Eça de Queirós with a simple, linear plot, concentrated in action, time and space. In them, his conception of the short story is evident: figures, feelings and landscapes sketched with a sober stroke, only the defining line that reveals a personality or a moment.
The edition is part of the «Colecção portuguesa» series (no. 18); the work was originally published in 1902.
For readers interested in the short story and in classical Portuguese literature.
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.
