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A Cidade e as Serras
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Abandoned at 31%.
Eça is a great writer, and you should read Cousin Bazilio: A Domestic Episode, The Maias or, my favorite, The Crime of Father Amaro. I don't care if you have to forage the land for old editions, learn Portuguese or make a pact with the devil: if you are serious about getting acquainted with books worth reading, Eça de Queirós is a name you can't ignore .
Of course, that doesn't mean I'd love every single thing he wrote. A Cidade e as Serras is an incomplete work, sold like it was a finished work. Not to diminish Eça's merits: he died mid-editing the book, and we can't blame the guy for dying. So what we have in hands is a narrative that is not even half polished, since by the page 20 I could already see that his prose became prolix and lacked the certain bite and hilarity that the beginning had.
I know there is some interesting criticism in this book, but the way it's delivered put me off (again, not the guy's fault, it is a first draft). And I have to confess, I'm not a fan of this lyric, sensory Eça. I like my Eça ruthless, mocking and uncomfortably empathetic. I see a little bit of this Eça in A Cidade e as Serras, but not enough.
Eça is a great writer, and you should read Cousin Bazilio: A Domestic Episode, The Maias or, my favorite, The Crime of Father Amaro. I don't care if you have to forage the land for old editions, learn Portuguese or make a pact with the devil: if you are serious about getting acquainted with books worth reading, Eça de Queirós is a name you can't ignore .
Of course, that doesn't mean I'd love every single thing he wrote. A Cidade e as Serras is an incomplete work, sold like it was a finished work. Not to diminish Eça's merits: he died mid-editing the book, and we can't blame the guy for dying. So what we have in hands is a narrative that is not even half polished, since by the page 20 I could already see that his prose became prolix and lacked the certain bite and hilarity that the beginning had.
I know there is some interesting criticism in this book, but the way it's delivered put me off (again, not the guy's fault, it is a first draft). And I have to confess, I'm not a fan of this lyric, sensory Eça. I like my Eça ruthless, mocking and uncomfortably empathetic. I see a little bit of this Eça in A Cidade e as Serras, but not enough.
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Reading Progress
April 22, 2015
– Shelved
April 22, 2015
– Shelved as:
to-read
February 14, 2016
–
12.15%
"The main theme seems to be about how information and tech can be overbearing and mind-numbing.\n \n Looks like a mandatory reading for millenials."
page
30
February 16, 2016
–
15.79%
""... atribuía a decadência da cozinha em França, a república, ao gosto democrático e torpe pelo barato" Atenção: já haviam hipsters no século XIX"
page
39
February 20, 2016
– Shelved as:
abandoned
