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9780811222181: The Yellow Sofa (New Directions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811222187 ISBN 13: 9780811222181
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Synopsis

José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) "no digressions, no rhetoric," creating a book where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful 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 his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.

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About the Authors

One of the leading intellectuals of the "Generation of 1870," José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat, in Havana, London, and Paris.

John Vetch has translated Eça de Queirós's The Yellow Sofa and To the Capital.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0811222187
ISBN 13 
9780811222181
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128