Alves & Co. / José Maria Eça de Queirós ; translated from the Portuguese with introduction and notes by Robert M. Fedorchek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Queirós, Eça de, 1845-1900.

Standardized Title:

Alves & Ca. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

114 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Alves and Co.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1988.

Summary:

Almost twenty-five years after the death of E a de Queir s, his son, Jos Maria D'E a de Queir s, discovered in 1924 an untitled and undated manuscript that contained neither revisions nor corrections. He painstakingly deciphered his father's nearly illegible script, titled the work, and published it as Alves & Co. This work shows Eaa de Queirus going beyond his early novels, The Sin of Fr. Amaro and Cousin Bazilio. The harsh focus of a narrow realism is now tempered by compassion for human folly. Although Eaa deals with the theme of adultery in several of his novels, only Alves & Co. examines the subject from the wronged husband's point of view. The description of Godofredo da ConceiAa? o Alves' efforts to salvage his honor while enduring the suffering that results from ridicule demonstrates E a's mastery of satire, humor, and psychological insight.

Notes:

Translation of: Alves & Ca.

Bibliography: pages xxi-xxii.

ISBN:

0819171565

0819171573

OCLC:

18292127