by Eça de Queiroz · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423324835
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La correspondencia de Fradique Mendes» is the epistolary novel by Eça de Queiroz, published by Destino in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
The work brings together fictional letters attributed to Fradique Mendes, a character created by Eça de Queiroz. Through this correspondence, the author offers a satirical and critical view of the society of the time and its contradictions.
The work originally appeared in 1900; this Destino edition is from 1995 and includes a prologue by Carlos Reis.
For readers interested in classics of Portuguese literature and in epistolary narrative with an ironic gaze.
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.
