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Article: Eca de Queiroz.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Eca de Queiroz. By MARIA FILOMENA MONICA. Trans. by ALISON AIKEN, with a Foreword by SIR RAYMOND CARR. Woodbridge: Tamesis. 2005. 544 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-85566-115-8.
In contrast to the UK, biography is not a popular genre in Portugal; this may be one of the reasons why Maria Filomena Monica decided to write a biography of Eca de Queiros. She tells us in the preface that the idea was originally suggested by Raymond Carr when she was writing her doctoral thesis in Oxford. Quite apart from the project's allegedly being a dream that came true, the author must have had other reasons for undertaking such a task. On the one hand, the Portuguese version ...