Crime of Father Amaro

Eca de Queiros,Eca de Queirez

Crime of Father Amaro
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
19 October 2000
Pages
421
ISBN
9781873982891

Crime of Father Amaro

Eca de Queiros,Eca de Queirez

The explosive and highly controversial new film of The Crime of Father Amaro is set in Mexico, in a material and religious culture of this century not unlike the provincial Portugal where, as a young man, de Queiros was despatched to train for the consular service. The Crime of Father Amaro is set in Leiria, a provincial cathedral city, in which the hypocrisies of churchmen were not far to seek. Father Amaro, a young man like himself, with a priestly rather than a diplomatic vocation, falls into a relationship with a woman, and their tragic story unfolds with a harsh relentlessness. The situation of women, tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their illusions of romance, much troubled the young author in this and later books

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