Tag: The Maias

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The Maias summary

A summary of the posts on The Maias by Eça de Queirós, as well as some additional notes. José Maria Eça de Queirós online resources The Maias: resources The Maias discussion: Chapters 1 – 6 The Maias discussion: Chapters 7 – 10 The Maias discussion: Chapters 11 – 14 The Maias discussion: Chapters 15 – […]

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The Maias discussion: Chapters 15 – 18

Os Vencidos da Vida (Those Defeated by Life)Eça de Queirós in front row with walking stickPhoto from www.arqnet.pt The end of the book comes with mixed feelings: satisfaction from reading such a wonderful novel, dissatisfaction with many characters that cannot develop, and reevaluation of everything that has happened to date. The generational differences are still […]

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The Maias: resources

I started reading The Maias and quickly found myself lost during references to Portuguese history. I’m sure I will find more things I’m ignorant about, but for starters here are a few links that help make sense of the background events in the book: Portuguese history: Fourth Dynasty (1640 – 1910) at Wikipedia More detail […]