EGA de Queiroz
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900) was considered by V.S. Pritchett as a writer who must rank with Proust as one of the greatest of European novelists. For Zola he as 'far greater than my own dear master, Flaubert'. Had Queiroz written in a language other than his native Portuguese he would undoubtedly have been, and be, much more famous. His novels illuminate nineteenth-century Portuguese society as those of Dickens reveal Victorian England and indeed have become so ingrained in the Portuguese consciousness that i