Over-Indulging
Patrick Parrinder, 9 February 1995
The Sin of Father Amaro
by Eça de Queirós, translated by Nan Flanagan.
Carcanet, 352 pp., £14.95, August 1994,1 85754 101 4 Show More
by Eça de Queirós, translated by Nan Flanagan.
Carcanet, 352 pp., £14.95, August 1994,
The City and the Mountains
by Eça de Queirós, translated by Roy Campbell.
Carcanet, 217 pp., £14.95, August 1994,1 85754 102 2 Show More
by Eça de Queirós, translated by Roy Campbell.
Carcanet, 217 pp., £14.95, August 1994,
“... Like his elder contemporary Henry James, Eça de Queirós belongs to the small and distinguished group of 19th-century novelists who wrote in exile. He was born in 1845 in a remote town of northern Portugal, but spent most of his working life in England and France. He liked to maintain that his novels were fundamentally French, and that he himself was French in everything but his fondness for ballad-singers and cod with onions ... ”
