Cousin Bazilio

de Queiroz, Eca

ISBN 10: 1903517087 / ISBN 13: 9781903517086

Published by Dedalus Books Limited, 2015

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 6246818-75

Synopsis:

Cousin Bazilio is a tale of sexual folly and hyprocrisy and vividly depicts bourgeois life in nineteenth-century Lisbon. Eca gives us a whole gallery of characters from Bazilio, the suave villain to Jorge, the smugly uxorious husband, from Luiza, the bored, empty-headed wife to Juliana, the plain, ailing maidservant desperate, by whatever means, to grab some of life's little luxuries, from Leopoldina, nicknamed 'the Ever-Open Door', to Joana the cook and her affair with the tubercular carpenter who lives opposite, and the voluminous Dona Felicidade who nurses an entirely unrequited passion for the unbearably pompous Acacio, who lives in concubinage with his much younger housekeeper, who is also having an affair.

Review: 'As translated by Jull Costa, de Queiroz' language is capable of glowing softly as well as casting a glaring light.It brings a sparkling, brilliant clarity and unrelenting sense of social absurdity that makes it essentially youthful.' --Barbara Strickland in The Austin Chronicle

'The tale rips along at a pace that could outdo any modern soap, while the social realist side of de Queiroz shows up the hypocritical limitations laid down by society, particularly on female morality. A classic then, but distinctly alternative in every way.' --The Scotsman

For a book originally published in 1878, Cousin Bazilio is astonishingly modern. It reeks of petty jealousies, middle-class ennui and of smouldering, repressed sexuality.There's even one bit where nasty old Juliana is sniffing Luisa's underwear to see if she's been putting it about.' --Eugene Byrne in Venue

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cousin Bazilio
Publisher: Dedalus Books Limited
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1 Edition.