Eca de Queiros
Portuguese novelist considered the greatest figure of 19th-century Portuguese literature and the introducer of realism and naturalism to Portugal. The Maias and Cousin Bazilio are among the finest novels in the Portuguese language.
Works
- The MaiasMulti-generational saga of a Portuguese bourgeois family's moral and social decline
- Cousin BazilioSatirical novel of adultery and social hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Lisbon
- The Crime of Father AmaroDark novel examining corruption within the Catholic church in Portuguese society
- The RelicSymbolic narrative of spiritual pilgrimage intertwined with European history and art
- The Illustrious House of RamiresPortrait of Portuguese nobility navigating modernization and loss of aristocratic status