THE CITY AND THE MOUNTAINS

The City and the Mountains
Fiction
Written by David
Saturday, 08 November 2008
by Jose Eca De Queiros (New Directions, $15.95)
Jose Saramago called him the greatest of all Portugese writers; Zola thought that he was far better than Flaubert; Harold Bloom called him a writer of genius. Eca De Queiros was an incredibly gifted and prolific 19th Century writer who's not much seen on the shelves of bookstores today. But, with Margaret Jull Costa's new, acclaimed translations, this is soon to change. The City and the Mountains is a deceptively simple panegyric to simple country life written in brilliant prose.

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