Three Short Stories

Three short stories by the Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós (A Lyric Poet, Perfection, José Matias). Translated to English by Christopher Lund - Probably because short stories, as a sub-genre, did not enjoy the same as the novel, Eça's short stories have not received in the past all the attention they deserve and remain frequently an unjustly unnoticed. The reader of this volume will, I believe, be as agreeably surprised as my Comparative Literature or General Education students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The three short stories assembled in this volume, A Lyric Poet, Perfection, and José Matias, are among Eça's most popular short fiction works and may be a perfect introduction to his fictional world. João Camilo