19th century Portuguese diplomat and writer
One of the leading intellectuals of the "Generation of 1870," José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat, in Havana, London, and Paris.
The City and the Mountains
The Maias
The Crime of Father Amaro
The Yellow Sofa
The Illustrious House of Ramires
“Queirós is far greater than my own dear master, Flaubert.”
— Emile Zola on José Maria de Eça de Queirós's The Crime of Father Amaro
“The Maias is one of the most impressive European novels of the nineteenth century, fully comparable to the most inspired novels of the great Russian, French, Italian and English masters of prose fiction. A family chronicle of intense historical insight and narrative power, The Maias reveals the decadence of Portugal in its long decline that was to culminate in the Salazar Fascist regime of the twentieth century. More than that, The Maias is a vision also of the general European malaise that eventually brought on the two World Wars and their aftermaths.”
— Harold Bloom on José Maria de Eça de Queirós's The Maias
Jean-Paul Sartre
Romain Gary
Andrew Sinclair
D. H. Lawrence
Nathaniel Tarn
Nathaniel Mackey
Rosmarie Waldrop