by José María Eça de Queirós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475514536
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«El primo Basilio» is the novel by Portuguese writer José María Eça de Queirós, published by Planeta in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
The story takes place in 19th-century Portugal and confronts its characters with the social conventions of the era. Secrets, appearances, and forbidden feelings become the center of a drama that portrays Portuguese society of the time.
Edition published in 1985 in the Aula collection, number 104, with translation and notes by Diego Navarro.
For readers of classic fiction and 19th-century 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.
