Marvellous Money
Michael Wood: Eça deQueirós, 3 January 2008
The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Life
by José Maria Eçade Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Dedalus, 714 pp., £15, March 2007,978 1 903517 53 6 Show More
by José Maria Eçade Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Dedalus, 714 pp., £15, March 2007,
“... an odour for which there is no name in the language, and which should be called the ‘odeur de pension’. The damp atmosphere sends a chill through you as you breathe it; it has a stuffy, musty and rancid quality; it permeates your clothing … Yet, in spite of these stale horrors, the sitting-room is as charming and as delicately perfumed as a ... ”
