The Yellow Sofa (Paperback)

Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros

ISBN 10: 0811222187 / ISBN 13: 9780811222181

Edité par New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 2016

A propos de cet article

Paperback. Jose Maria Eca de Queiros, 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 domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eca de Queiros in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy. A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Yellow Sofa (Paperback)
• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0811222187
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780811222181
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

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 domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.

À propos des auteurs

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.