by Eça de Queirós · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788497594066
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«El crimen del Padre Amaro» is the novel by Eça de Queirós, published by Debolsillo in hardcover (496 pages, in Spanish).
After securing the transfer of his rural parish to Leiria, the young priest Amaro Vieira encounters a clergy steeped in debauchery and hypocrisy. There he meets Amélia, the most admired girl in the city, and lets himself be drawn into a relationship that will be his undoing. The work caused scandal for its critique of the clergy and provincial society.
Original title: O Crime do Padre Amaro. Debolsillo Best Seller collection, no. 331. Translation by Damián Álvarez Villalaín.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and European fiction with an interest in social and religious 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.
