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José Maria de Eça de Queirós

The Crime of Father Amaro: Scenes from the Religious Life

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Eça de Queirós's novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune. At the start, a priest physically explodes after a fish supper while guests at a birthday celebration are wildly dancing a polka. Young Father Amaro (whose name means bitter in Portuguese) arrives in Leira and soon lusts after-and is lusted after by-budding Amelia, dewy-lipped, devout daughter of Sao Joaneira who has taken in Father Amaro as a lodger. What ensues is a secret love affair amidst a host of compelling minor characters: Canon Dias, glutton and Sao Joaneir… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Costa, Margaret Jull (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8112-1532-9
  • EAN: 9780811215329
  • Produktnummer: 9554177
  • Verlag: New Directions
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Seitenangabe: 480 S.
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D2.8 cm 422 g
  • Auflage: New
  • Gewicht: 422

Über den Autor


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.

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