The Yellow Sofa (New Directions) - Softcover

The Yellow Sofa

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) 'no digressions, no rhetoric,' creating a book where 'everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.' The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife 'on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.' The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy. Artikel-Nr. 9780811222181

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