by Eça de Queiroz · tapa blanda · ISBN 5607727098751
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«Singularidades de uma rapariga loura» is a Portuguese realist short story by Eça de Queiroz, published by Livros do Brasil in paperback.
The story presents Macário, a young man from Lisbon who is fascinated by a blonde girl he sees from his window. From that attraction, Eça de Queiroz traces an ironic critique of bourgeois morality and nineteenth-century social conventions, showing how desire and impulsive decisions can shape a life.
Originally written in Portuguese, the work was first published in 1874 and is a representative piece of Portuguese realism.
For readers of classic fiction interested in Portuguese literature and nineteenth-century realism.
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.
