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Set in Lisbon at the close of the nineteenth century, The Maias is both a coming-of-age novel and a passionate romance.
Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his beloved grandfather proud. However, Carlos is also a bit of a dilettante. He drifts along, becoming a doctor and pottering about in his laboratory, but spends more and more time riding his splendid horses or visiting the theater, having affairs or reading novels. His best friend and chief partner in crime, Ega, is likewise engaged in a long summertime of witticisms and pleasure. Carlos however is set on a dead reckoning course with fate—with the love of his life and with a terrible, terrible secret...
Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa (translator of José Saramago's Blindness), New Directions is proud to bring Eça de Queirós' brilliant prose to life for American readers for the first time.
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Ernst Anderson
reviewed The Maias on February 08, 2014 The Maias
It is hard to believe that I've lived this long without reading this classic of Portuguese literature. I don't understand. How can a so called semi-educated person like me go through almost a whole life time not knowing of this book's existence? There are some great reviews of this book here in Goodreads that I would urge you to read to find out what the book is about. What I want to do here is simply say that this book should be read the way Don Quixote or Madame Bovary or War and Peace or any other book that represents the best writing of a particular time, country, culture. (You may want to try the English Translation of by Jul Costa - the translator of Saramago's books). But I'm not suggesting you read Os Maias to find out about Portugal in the late 1800's. I'm suggesting you read it for the beauty of its language, the rhythm of its sentences, the detailed description that will make you see your own world a little better. Most of all read it for what it might do to you, for the way it has of reminding you of your own filled and unfulfilled desires and of recalling the dreams you once had of doing something good and noble and the quiet way Eca de Queiros has of warning you that life can be wasted.
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