Cousin Bazilio: A Domestic Episode (Dedalus European Classics)
Book Details
Author(s)
Eca De Queiroz
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd
ISBN / ASIN
1903517087
ISBN-13
9781903517086
Availability
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Sales Rank
#306,334
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
A tale of bourgeois sexual folly and hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Lisbon. Eca describes a gallery of vivid characters:
* Bazilio the suave villain
* Jorge the smug, uxorious husband
* Luiza the bored, silly wife
* Juliana, the plain, desperate maid
* Leopoldina, 'the Ever-Open Door'
* the voluminous Dona Felicidade, and many more.
The book aroused a scandal for its frank descriptions of sex and desire. What still grips the reader is the author's acute portrayal of the constraints imposed on men and, especially, women.
