Alves & Co. and Other Stories - Couverture souple

Queiroz, Eca De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1903517893 ISBN 13 : 9781903517895

Editeur : Dedalus Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Eca de Queiroz began his career as a self-declared realist, but as his writing evolved, his novels and stories became a potent blend of realism and fantasy.

In this volume, comprising one short novel and six short stories, the reader is introduced to a dazzling variety of worlds and characters -- a deceived husband who finds that jealousy is not the answer, a lovelorn Greek poet-turned-waiter working in a Charing Cross hotel, a saintly young woman soured by love, a follower of St Francis who learns that an entire life of virtue can be besmirched by one cruel act, Adam in Paradise pondering the pros and cons of dominion over the earth, Jesus healing a child, and a loyal nursemaid forced to make a terrible choice.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900)is considered to be Portugal's greatest novelist. Dedalus has embarked on a project of making all his major works available in English in new translations by Margaret Jull Costa.
The Mandarin, The Relic, The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers, The Crime of Father Amaro, Cousin Bazilio, The Maias and The City and the Mountains, Alves & Co have so far been published.
Dedalus will publish the mystery of the Sintra Road in 2013.

Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers. She won the 1992 Portuguese Translation Prize for The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, and her translations of Eca de Queiroz's novels The Relic(1996) and The City and the Mountains(2009) were shortlisted for the prize; with Javier Marias, she won the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for A Heart So White, and, in 2000, she won the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Jose Saramago's All the Names.In 2008 she won the Pen Book-of-the Month-Club Translation Prize and The Oxford Weidenfeld Translatio

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dedalus Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1903517893
• ISBN 13: 9781903517895
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible