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Title: The Illustrious House of Ramires (A Revived Modern Classic) by Eca De Queiros, Anne Stevens, Eca de Queiros, Jose Maria EA Queiros, Eca De Queiroz ISBN: 0-8112-1264-5 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Cervantes' Heir
Comment: The books of Eca De Queiros are not easy to find. I read about him a long time ago and then slowly began picking the books up as I found them one by one. Three so far but there are others. This is the most polished of the three but the other two I have, The Relic(now available)& The City and the Mountains(availability uncertain), are really good too. I have to say my favorite is The City and the Mountains because it so funny. This novelist is funny & not many 19th century novelists are. In The City and the Mountains those two locations are compared by the wealthy protaganist to see which one suits him better, neither location is spared this novelists eye for comedy which one can tell gave him a lot of pleasure, the laughs in this book make you glad to be human. The Illustrious House of Ramirez is a more serious work. It has some funny parts but the comedy is of a higher nature. Since HISTORY is one of its topics both national identity and personal identity are subjected to this fine writers sympathetic ridicule but you feel the tragedy of those topics too while you are laughing at how clever the whole plot is. It is a grander work, further reaching than the one I mentioned as my favorite, and will probably appeal to more readers who want significant, not just hilarious, fare. However, if you read Illustrious House and still want more find the others too. Eca De Queiroz writes as well as any other 19th century writer judging by the translations I've read. Of them I think he is most often compared to Flaubert, he certainly sees through all the passing fads and illusions of the day in the way that one did. As for the Relic it is a very clever plot which hinges on a find which draws into question our religious heritage. More HISTORY but unless you can enjoy the opulent prose for its own sake its kind of a one idea book. Clever idea though it is. I think it said above that this novelist was for people with large foreign lit. collections. I will agree with that. But if you've read all the big names at least once you will just appreciate this rare find all the more.
Rating: 5
Summary: A (wonderful)case of "anguish of influence".
Comment: This is a classical case of "anguish of influence" as Eça is attempting, above all,when portraying the chief character, to write an ersatz Mediaeval historical novel in the manner of his great predecessor and adversary, the great Romantic writer Alexandre Herculano. One could say that Eça had, late in life, made peace with something he had spend all his adult life refusing to admit as deserving of praise, and when he finally surrendered, to have done so by means of a kind of "fanfic". However, this fanfic was rendered by Eça in his costomary -and wonderful - ironic manner, as the glories of the Portuguese past portrayed in the short novel written by the hero are each moment contrasted to the pettiness and mediocrity of the present. Neverthless, Eça closes the novel by meking peace with the Portuguese bourgeois society of his day, ultimately proposing a kind of future Portuguese "Manifest Destiny", consisting in the making of a Portuguese African Empire (anyway, one can say that his support of such Portuguese colonial adventures is half-hearted, to say the least). Despite this obvious political blunder - even at the time - Eça as always excels in his usual ironic qualities, tempered in this late novel by a quality of kindness not to be found so easily in his previous novels. Deserves to be read and known in English grab.
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Title: The Maias (Penguin Classics) by Eca De Queiros, Ann Stevens, Patrica McGowan Pinheiro, Jose Maria Eca de Queiros ISBN: 014044694X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Crime of Father Amaro by Jose Maria Eca De Queiros, Margaret Jull Costa ISBN: 0811215326 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Lusiads by Luis Vaz De Camoes, Landeg White, Luis Vaz de Camoies ISBN: 0192801511 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move by A. J. R. Russell-Wood ISBN: 0801859557 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Great Fire: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0374166447 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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