by Eça de Queiroz · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725681367
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«Os Maias» is the novel by Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz published by Editora Ulisseia in paperback, with 681 pages in Portuguese.
The action begins in the fall of 1875, when Afonso da Maia settles in Lisbon with his grandson Carlos, recently graduated in Medicine; from there, three generations of the Maia family are reconstructed and the social, political, and cultural life of the Portuguese capital is portrayed, with a critical and disillusioned view toward the country.
Originally published in 1888. This edition belongs to the «Série Integral» and includes an introduction by Esther de Lemos.
For readers interested in Portuguese narrative of the nineteenth century and in novels of social criticism with a portrait of the era.
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.
