El Crimen del Padre Amaro

von Eca de Queirós

400 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Translated into English, this highly controversial work of fiction is set in Leiria, Mexico, in a material and religious culture of this century not unlike the provincial Portugal where, as a young man, Eca de Quéiros was dispatched to train for the consular service. Leiria is a provincial cathedral city, in which the hypocrisies of churchmen were prevalent. Father Amaro, a young man like Eca himself, with a priestly rather than a diplomatic vocation, falls into a relationship with a woman, and their tragic story unfolds with a harsh relentlessness. The situation of women, tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their illusions of romance, is addressed in this novel.

• ISBN: 9781857546842
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2003
• Größe: 201 x 131 mm
• Verlag: Carcanet Press