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The Yellow Sofa
Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros
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Description for The Yellow Sofa
Paperback. Translator(s): Vetch, John. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where “everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.” The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife “on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.” The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for ... Read more
José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where “everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.” The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife “on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.” The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811222181
SKU
V9780811222181
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About Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros
One of the leading intellectuals of the "Generation of 1870," José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat, in Havana, London, and Paris. John Vetch has translated Eça de Queirós’s The Yellow Sofa and To the Capital.
Reviews for The Yellow Sofa
"His excellent prose glides through real experience and private dream in a manner that is leading on toward the achievements of Proust."
V. S. Pritchett "Eça de Queirós is far greater than my own dear master, Flaubert."
Émile Zola "A wonderful, gently mocking exemplar of bourgeois morality."
Publishers Weekly "Portugal’s greatest novelist."
José Saramago
V. S. Pritchett "Eça de Queirós is far greater than my own dear master, Flaubert."
Émile Zola "A wonderful, gently mocking exemplar of bourgeois morality."
Publishers Weekly "Portugal’s greatest novelist."
José Saramago