John Astore's Reviews > The City and the Mountains

Costa did a terrific job translating. I believe she's translated other Eca de Queiros works, too. I love the theme: contrasting the City and Nature. One can easily inject oneself into various roles of the personages; the characters are aloof, but nothing surreal. He writes in the late 1800s, which makes the novel more real because of the connection to Nature which many people still had, even within Paris and the rest of Western Europe. Eca de Queiros quickly became one of my favorite authors.