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  <title><![CDATA[Os Maias]]></title>
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  <default-description>A mensagem que o autor pretende deixar com esta obra, tem uma inten&#231;&#227;o iminentemente cr&#237;tica.

&#201; atrav&#233;s do paralelo entre duas personagens - Pedro e Carlos da Maia -, que E&#231;a concretiza a sua inten&#231;&#227;o. Note-se que ambos, apesar de terem tido educa&#231;&#245;es totalmente diferentes, falharam na vida. Pedro falha com um casamento desastroso, que o leva ao suic&#237;dio; Carlos falha com uma liga&#231;&#227;o incestuosa, da qual sai para se deixar afundar numa vida est&#233;ril e apagada, sem qualquer projecto seriamente &#250;til, em Paris.

Por outro lado, estas duas personagens, representam tamb&#233;m &#233;pocas hist&#243;ricas e pol&#237;ticas diferentes. Pedro, a &#233;poca do Romantismo, e seu filho, a Gera&#231;&#227;o de 70 e das Confer&#234;ncias do Casino, gera&#231;&#227;o potencialmente destinada ao sucesso.. Mas n&#227;o foi isso que sucedeu e &#233; este facto que o escritor pretende evidenciar com o epis&#243;dio final - o fracasso da Gera&#231;&#227;o dos Vencidos da Vida.

Assim, estas personagens representam os males de Portugal e o fracasso sucessivo das diferentes correntes est&#233;tico-liter&#225;rias. Fracasso este que parece dever-se, n&#227;o &#224;s correntes em si, mas &#224;s caracter&#237;sticas do povo portugu&#234;s - a predilec&#231;&#227;o pela forma em detrimento do conte&#250;do, o diletantismo que impede a fixa&#231;&#227;o num trabalho s&#233;rio e interessante, a atitude &quot;rom&#226;ntica&quot; perante a vida, que consiste em desculpar sistematicamente, os pr&#243;prios erros e falhas, e dizer &quot;Tudo culpa da sociedade&quot;.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1888</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Eça de Queirós]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Maias</em>, by Eça de Queiroz/de Queirós, is a proper doorstop of a C19th novel, over 700 pages long. It’s late C19th, though, 1888. I was trying to think of apt comparisons, and none of them seemed exactly right, but it’s much more George Eliot or Tolstoy than Dickens. Or even early C20th nove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56608960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wrote this when I had given up:<br/><br/>&quot;I have to admit that I can't get into this book.  I love Costas's translation--I've never read one of hers I didn't--but life is too short to be bored for so long.  If you've read a few hundred novels in your life, you know more or less where this o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23247403">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA['Los Maia' es una gran novela que acaba de una manera perfecta. Es uno de los mejores finales de toda la historia de la literatura. Después que la trama ya se ha resuelto en el penúltimo capítulo, el último capítulo es un epílogo en el que Carlos da Maia vuelve a Lisboa, diez años después de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16709758">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who likes social criticism in particular, and a great, wit-filled story in general.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Welcome to Portuguese 19th century society! Sit back and enjoy a throughly well written, critical, satirical, humoristic and surprisingly actual view of its virtues and flaws, its characters and habits, its morals and ideas - all by the hand (or should I say pen?) of the most extraordinary of Portug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14813635">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 11 05:51:14 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Portugal. where I went to high school, this is required reading. It's a classic and a wonderful reflection of Portuguese &quot;high&quot; society at the time, and the critique in a lighthearted and at times humorous way. Although the author also &quot;rubbed elbows&quot; would the upper class, he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12230420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50479510">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a realist novel, Os Maias is a sublime work of art. It really takes the mirror metaphor to a new level (Stendhal once wrote that a novel must be like a mirror walking down the road).<br/><br/>However, these same qualities make it an extremely boring read, since it's more a novel about life in X...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50479510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38978194">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[...a little bit boring so far? but worth finding out what the portuguese version of the 19th century novel is like....<br/><br/><br/>ok, i totally take it back! not boring at all. i think at first, i found it hard to reconcile the two prevailing tones in which the book is written: Votairian irony...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38978194">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a friend keeps recommending jose saramago to me.  i don't think i'm smart enough for saramago but saramago calls this dude portugal's greatest novelist - so i think it's a worthy replacement for saramago.<br/><br/>the nyt review makes this novel sound like something of a socially conscious bodice-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5545196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this in english, not portuguese, but i couldn't find the english edition i read on the goodreads list. it was translated by margaret jull costa, who translates javier marias' books. (and i really like her translations). <br/>anyway, the first book i read by 'the best portuguese writer' accor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47691009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68124393">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is beautiful...almost an Edith Wharton vibe to it, I'm falling in love with Lisbon as I fall in love with the characters. ]]></body>
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    <review id="41192419">
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting look at Portugal in the late 19th century, interesting discussions about art and literature in society]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Way too descriptive. Then again I read this when I was 16, so a re-read might be in order.<br/> ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Weighing in at 628 pages, this is a book that begins to hurt one’s pinky when tries to prop it up in bed. But one does not let this stop her.<br/><br/>Published in 1888, The Maias is a sweeping multi-generation stretching saga not unlike that of the Forsytes, but in Portugal. Young men in fine b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4564130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13949440">
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    <body><![CDATA[De Queiros is apparently called the Dickens of Portugal and that certainly does not surprise me. Unfortunately I'm not much of a Dickens fan. This family saga has all the 19th century ingredients from romance to matters of honor, politics in the background, morality tales and the big surprise at the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13949440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23499718">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Palavras para quê? É um monumento da literatura portuguesa, e uma crítica feroz e irónica à sociedade daquele tempo que, incrivelmente, aida se aplica, em muitos pontos, à dos nossos dias. Felizmene, li-o antes de o ter &quot;dado&quot; na escola e gostei muitíssimo.<br/><br/>Faz parte da P...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the greatest pieces of portuguese literature I have ever read. The portrait of a whole century (the 19th) and way of life is that of an absolute genious. Don't let the first few pages of intense description intimidate you, it gets better and better.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 30 02:59:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Um daqueles livros que temos de ler e por isso se torna normalmente uma obrigação pouco agradável. No meu caso tornou-se uma excelente surpresa. Tornou-se assim um dos meus livros preferidos e um dos meus autores preferidos. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's one of my favorite books ever! Eca de Queiros was a truly gifted writer - reading his books is like experiencing wonderful tastes, seeing a beautiful painting and listening to a symphony - all at once!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My sister tells me this author is the Portugal's Dickens and after reading it I can see why. Totally engrossing family drama while at the same time informative about the social ills of the time.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 16 12:18:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The great Portugese writer. Still have to read his other stuff, but loved this. Like Nabokov and maybe Tolstoy, he makes it look so easy. His sentences flow so well into each other. Very fluid.]]></body>
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