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Eça de Queirós
Los Maia
Title: Los Maia
Author: Eça de Queirós
Format: Paperback
Language: Spanish
Pages: 840
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 8481913235
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 8.1 MB
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Para Eça de Queirós (1845-1900), una literatura era la mejor justificación de una nacionalidad.
En un país como Portugal, que cultiva su ser patrio tan primorosamente, determinadas obras
han estado llamadas a convertirse en exponente máximo del genio y la vida portugueses: LOS
LUSIADAS, LOS MAIA, los escritos pessoanos. Incluso cuando su carácter y sentido último
han sido contrarios a esa búsqueda ansiosa de confirmación de lo que se es.
Entronizada como la mejor novela portuguesa escrita nunca, LOS MAIA representa en Portugal
y para Portugal el súmmum del arte narrativo: es su Quijote.
LOS MAIA (1888) cuenta la historia de la decadencia de una gran familia portuguesa a través
de dos de sus miembros: el anciano Afonso da Maia y el joven Carlos da Maia, representante
del refinamiento finisecular y verdadero protagonista del relato. Al hilo del desmoronamiento,
del fin de un tiempo y un modo de vida, los personajes viven su tiempo y su vida, y la novela
escenifica los ritos del amor (y del velado sexo burgués del XIX, o adúltero o de pago) y los de
la humana estupidez, abordada en su vertiente más social. En ambos aspectos la novela nos
retrata: somos excelentes y bobos de manera muy similar a como lo eran los hombres de 1875.
El amor y la estupidez son intemporales.
En LOS MAIA el amor tiene el rostro accidental del incesto, que no es para Eça de Queirós una
tara, sino una de las formas de la excelencia amorosa. Un espléndido retrato de la Lisboa de
finales del siglo XIX, que en lo esencial es la Lisboa que los forasteros buscan y admiran. Una
urbe a la que Eça de Queirós se refirió como "la ciudad de mármol y basura".
Insightful reviews
Phillip Kay: José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) is considered Portugal's greatest
novelist, and The Maias (1888) his greatest novel. Other books by de Queiroz are The Sins of
Father Amaro (1876) and The Illustrious House of Ramires.
In a long book (over 600 pages) no detail is forgotten, and a convincing picture of mid 19th
century Lisbon is built up. The characters all ring true: I felt I knew them well. The dozens of
central characters are all alive, real people with faults, somehow lovable - Eça de Queiros writes
with great affection even though he deplores the decay of a once great country. So many of the
book's characters seem real, though presented in brief. They come and go and re-appear in a
complex tapestry of events which makes them astoundingly like people I have known. Eça de
Queiroz has the gift of bringing his world to life and making the reader a part of it. The mood is
not tragic: ironic, satiric, even humorous at times, full of regret...let's just say saudade, even
though we English speakers don't really know what that means. I was very moved while
reading, and for long after.
Carlos Eduardo de Maia is the sole heir of an ancient, illustrious family. The family hopes and
ambitions are dependent on him. Honour is a very real thing in this culture, and Carlos has a lot
of expectations to bear. The glorious past and the unsatisfactory present are both with him at all
times. A central plot strand of the novel details the incestuous love of Carlos and Maria
Eduarda, and the tragedy this brings to all concerned. The affair is skillfully built up, and comes
to a shattering climax.
The Maias is a book which mourns many things. The decadence of Portuguese culture and
spirit; the passing of time; the loss of things undone. Carlos and his friend Ega in the end have
fulfilled none of their youthful ambitions.
The ending, with the friends Carlos and Ega running after a tram, reminds me of the end of
Fellini Satyricon. One is suddenly made to realise that these people who have come to life so
convincingly, who share my own pains and regrets, lived more than one hundred years ago.
That poignant shock universalises the reading experience. Ambition, the great love of Carlos
and Maria Eduarda, the virtues of Alfonso, the literary gifts of Ega, the pretensions and
fantasies of so many of the characters, are all futile in the end. Fate, and perhaps some
innocent fault of their own, conspires against them. Life wasn't meant to be fair, and looking
back is often a bitter experience.
I put the book away with a word of encouragement to Carlos, this imaginary character who died
almost a century ago. Don't be too cynical, I say: your gifts are great, and you have achieved
much. Visit Maria Eduarda. Encourage Ega to finish his book. We all grow older, duller. What
we love inevitably turns to dust. I too am thinking more of what might have been than of what
might be.
Teresa Abecasis: a história já era conhecida, mas na verdade nunca me tinha dado ao trabalho
de ler o livro. na altura da escola, interessava-me muito mais por policiais. ainda bem que o li.
não é só por ser ainda uma crítica actual à sociedade portuguesa (crítica que já conhecia), é
por ser escrito na minha lìngua, por falar de lugares que agora conheço tão bem, por ser um
pouco da história deste país.
comecei por viver fora do país, entretanto mudei-me para cá, já passei pela fase do "lá fora
tudo é melhor" e agora estou na fase do "mas cá também há muita coisa boa que temos de
conhecer e valorizar". foi nesta fase que fez sentido para mim voltar a pegar no eça e explorar
este nome tão grande da literatura portuguesa.
Ana: Não querendo recontar a história, para mim este é um marco da literatura portuguesa. A
primeira vez que o li fi-lo por ser a leitura obrigatória para a escola mas fiquei de tal forma
cativada pelo enredo e pela forma como está escrito que não resisti a relê-lo pouco tempo
depois. Tenho pena que a falta de maturidade que por vezes os alunos do secundário têm não
lhes permita apreciar convenientemente o livro - isto quando se dão realmente ao trabalho de o
ler.
Maria João: 9,5 de 10*Terminada a leitura de "Os Maias", assiste-me um misto de sentimentos:
por um lado, sinto uma espécie de saudade, após thirteen dias mergulhada nas páginas deste
livro, torna-se difícil desprender-me destas personagens e desta época. Por outro lado, sinto
orgulho, porque li a obra integral. E digo isto porque existe um enorme estigma em redor desta
obra (e de outras também) porque é de leitura obrigatória na escola e todos (ou quase todos)
encarámos a sua leitura como um "frete" e procurámos aqueles livrinhos amarelos com os
resumos para responder às exigências da disciplina de português (do 9.º ano?). Comentário
completo em:http://abibliotecadajoao.blogspot.pt/...
Gaby: São three estrelas mas a puxar para as 3,5.Fiquei muito surpreendida, não esperava um
livro assim depois de todos os aspectos negativos que ouvi. Tem muita descrição é verdade
mas gostei da história em si. O ultimate foi agridoce mas fez sentido para mim. Pensava que
não ia gostar mas o livro surpreendeu-me pela positiva.
Francisco: it's tough to think that i have lived this lengthy with out examining this vintage of
Portuguese literature. i do not understand. How can a so referred to as semi-educated
individual like me plow through virtually an entire existence time now not understanding of this
book's existence? There are a few nice experiences of this ebook the following in Goodreads
that i might urge to learn to determine what the e-book is about. What i would like to do this is
easily say that this ebook might be learn the way in which Don Quixote or Madame Bovary or
conflict and Peace or the other ebook that represents the easiest writing of a specific time,
country, culture. (You probably want to try out the English Translation of via Jul Costa - the
translator of Saramago's books). yet i am not suggesting you learn Os Maias to determine
approximately Portugal within the overdue 1800's. i am suggesting you learn it for the great
thing about its language, the rhythm of its sentences, the special description that would make
you spot your individual international a bit better. such a lot of all learn it for what it will possibly
do to you, for how it has of reminding you of your personal stuffed and unfulfilled wants and of
recalling the goals you as soon as had of doing anything reliable and noble and the quiet means
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