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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1857541022
ISBN-13
9781857541021
Edition
New
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 31st, 1993
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
420 grams
Dimensions
22.00 x 16.00 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction: literary and generalClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Jacinto, an absentee noble from Portugal, revels in joyous extreme in the latest of French sophistications. Circumstances compel his return to his family estates where he rediscovers the values and pleasures of Portuguese traditional life, but there are doubts about this perfection he finds.
By the time Eça wrote The City and the Mountains he was consul in Paris. Jacinto, an absentee noble from Portugal, revels in joyous extreme in the latest of French sophistications. Circumstances compel his return to his family estates where he redsicovers the values and pleasures of Portuguese traditional life. However, the mature Eça never à thèse or without subtlety; the ironic narrator, Zé Fernandes, though finally repelled in Paris by an 'advanced' society driven by the 'breathless occupation of wanting', insinuates doubts about the perfeection Jacinto finds in a return to the pastoral. This delightful novel, thogh written at the fin-de-siècle, belongs to our time in its wry and telling interest in simpler life-styles.
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