City And The Mountains - Softcover

De Queiroz, Eca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903517710 ISBN 13: 9781903517710

Verlag: Dedalus, 1900

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The Portuguese Dickens, Eça de Queíroz left this last novel behind on his death in 1900. As timely now as then, it follows with a smart balance of satire, irony and lyric grace the progress of a rich brat who quits the city to find fulfilment in rural life. Trustafarian Jacinto grows up in the stifling lap of luxury at 202 Champs-Elysées: an address to die for, and he almost does, smothered by the hi-tech gadgetry of the 1890s. Then, after a summons back to the family estate in Portugal, he leaves Paris for a radical makeover as nature-loving country gent. The narrator's wry tone, well caught in Margaret Jull Costa's translation, captures all the ambivalence of Jacinto's path as the retired decadent turns virtuous squire and grows positively dull; as a result.' --Boyd Tonkin in The Independent

'A classic in its native Portugal, this English translation of Queiroz's posthumous novel tells the story of Jacinto, a 30-something Parisian who makes a tortuous train journey through France and Spain to his homeland only to find all his possessions have disappeared in transit. A story of magic and satire unfolds.' --Alex Donohue in The Big Issue

Reseña del editor:

In this very funny late novel, published after his death, Eça's satire is turned on the emptiness of city life and of modernity itself, and the bucolic second half, which bubbles with joie-de-vivre, reflects Eça's own recently discovered joy in country living at his wife's estate in Tormes.

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• Verlag: Dedalus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1900
• ISBN 10: 1903517710
• ISBN 13: 9781903517710
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 237