O Crime Do Padre Amaro, Scenas Da Vida Devota
Title | O Crime Do Padre Amaro, Scenas Da Vida Devota PDF eBook |
Author | Eça de Queirós |
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Pages | |
Release | 2010 |
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The Sin of Father Amaro
Title | The Sin of Father Amaro PDF eBook |
Author | Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | London : M. Reinhardt |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Hypocrisy |
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Centers on a priest's seduction of a young and innocent girl, Amelia--a candid indictment of moral and social decadence, of a corrupt society ministered to by a smug and hypocritical clergyman--a moving story of human passion and human fallibility.
The Crime of Father Amaro
Title | The Crime of Father Amaro PDF eBook |
Author | Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811215329 |
Set in Leira, Portugal in the 1870s, follows the love affair of young Father Amaro with nubile Am elia, and their interactions with Am elia's mother, her atheist suitor, and her mother's lover, the priest Canon Dias.
The Falling Snow and Other Stories
Title | The Falling Snow and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | José Maria Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2022-01-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0813235049 |
"Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of themes characterize the stories: love, greed, obsession, country life; patriotism"--
Essays on Paula Rego
Title | Essays on Paula Rego PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Manuel Lisboa |
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Pages | 512 |
Release | 2019-08-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781783747566 |
In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego's work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego's art. Taking a historicist approach to the evolution of the artist's work, Lisboa embeds the works within Rego's personal history as well as Portugal's (and indeed other nations') stories, and reveals the interrelationship between political significance and the raw emotion that lies at the heart of Rego's uncompromising iconographic style. Fundamental to Lisboa's analysis is an understanding that apparent opposites - male and female, sacred and profane, aggression and submissiveness - often co-exist in Rego's work in a way that is both disturbing and destabilising. This collection of essays brings together both unpublished and previously published work to make a significant contribution to scholarship about Paula Rego. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of contemporary painting, Portuguese and British feminist art, and the political and ideological aspects of the visual arts.
La Regenta
Title | La Regenta PDF eBook |
Author | John Rutherford |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 1046 |
Release | 2005-07-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141960760 |
Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. And when she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery, a bitter struggle begins between a powerful priest and a would-be Don Juan for the passionate young woman's body and soul. Scandalizing contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885, with its searing critique of the Church and its frank treatment of sex, La Regenta is a compelling and witty depiction of the complacent and frivolous world of upper-class society.
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
Title | I Have the Right to Destroy Myself PDF eBook |
Author | Young-ha Kim |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2007-07-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547540531 |
A “mesmerizing” novel of a love triangle and a mysterious disappearance in South Korea (Booklist). In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same beguiling drifter, Se-yeon, who gives herself freely to both of them. Then, just as they are trying desperately to forge a connection in an alienated world, Se-yeon suddenly disappears. All the while, a spectral, calculating narrator haunts the edges of their lives, working to help the lost and hurting find escape through suicide. When Se-yeon reemerges, it is as the narrator’s new client. Recalling the emotional tension of Milan Kundera and the existential anguish of Bret Easton Ellis, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself is a dreamlike “literary exploration of truth, death, desire and identity” (Publishers Weekly). Cinematic in its urgency, the novel offers “an atmosphere of menacing ennui [set] to a soundtrack of Leonard Cohen tunes” (Newark Star-Ledger). “Kim’s novel is art built upon art. His style is reminiscent of Kafka’s and also relies on images of paintings (Jacques-Louis David’s ‘The Death of Marat,’ Gustav Klimt’s ‘Judith’) and film (Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Stranger Than Paradise’). The philosophy—life is worthless and small—reminds us of Camus and Sartre, risky territory for a young writer. . . . But Kim has the advantage of the urban South Korean landscape. Fast cars, sex with lollipops and weather fronts from Siberia lend a unique flavor to good old-fashioned nihilism. Think of it as Korean noir.” —Los Angeles Times “Like Georges Simenon, [Kim’s] keen engagement with human perversity yields an abundance of thrills as well as chills (and, for good measure, a couple of memorable laughs). This is a real find.” —Han Ong, author of Fixer Chao