by Eça de Queiroz · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497591010
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«El crimen del padre Amaro» is the realist novel by Eça de Queiroz, published by Debolsillo in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
Young priest Amaro arrives in Leiria and discovers a clergy given over to debauchery. Upon meeting the young Amélia, he begins a forbidden passion that leads to his downfall. The novel portrays the hypocrisy of provincial Portuguese society and of ecclesiastical celibacy.
Original title: O Crime do Padre Amaro. A work of nineteenth-century Portuguese realism, published in 1875.
Readers of nineteenth-century classics and European realism will find a work of Portuguese literature with social criticism.
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.
