The Yellow Sofa - Brossura

Queiros, Eca De

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0811213390 ISBN 13: 9780811213394

Casa editrice: New Directions, 1996

Riassunto

In a spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, Godofredo walks in on his wife in the embrace of his best friend and business partner, and struggles alternately with the need to defend his honor and his need for domestic tranquility

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Jose Maria Eca de Queiros, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with, as he said, "no digressions, no rhetoric," where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns Godofredo Alves, a successful, buoyant businessman who returns home to find his wife "on the yellow damask sofa...leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man..." The man is none other than Machado, his best friend and business partner. Godofredo struggles with the public need to defend his honor, and a stronger inner desire for forgiveness and domestic tranquillity. The Babel Guide to Portuguese Fiction notes, "The genius of this book is how Eca captures all the emotional fluctuations...and with such accuracy. The result is an enjoyable humorous novella that is simultaneously breathtakingly ironic." The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eca de Queiros in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac and Tolstoy.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0811213390
• ISBN 13: 9780811213394
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile