Tragedy of the Street of Flowers

Klappentext Considered to be Portugal''s finest novelist, Eca de Queiroz was a master of satire who set out to expose the hypocrisy of his day. He accomplishes this magnificently in The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers'

About the author

Novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading intellectuals of the 'Generation of 1870'. Eça de Queiras introduced naturalism and realism to Portuguese literature. He is considered the major novelist of his generation. The French writer Emile Zola admired him greatly and said that Eça was "greater than Flaubert".

Product details

• Authors: Jos Maria E. a. De Queir?'s, Jose Maria Eça de Queiras, Josã(c) Maria Eça de Queiràs, Jose Maria De Eca De Queiros, Eca de Queiros
• Assisted by: Margaret Jull Costa (Translation)
• Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2000
• EAN: 9781873982648
• ISBN: 978-1-873982-64-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: European Classics; European Classics; Dedalus European Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature