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The City and the Mountains
A Cidade e as Serras
Eça de Queirós
Realism
1901
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The City and the Mountains
Original title: A Cidade e as Serras (Português)
Eça de Queirós
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The story
In Paris, Jacinto owns everything civilisation has invented and nothing that consoles him; the Portuguese mountains give him back his appetite.
About the author
José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845–1900) gave Portuguese prose the irony and precision of gaze that defined Iberian realism.
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