The Crime Of Father Amaro

by Eça de Queirós

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Summary

This is a new translation of Eça de Queirós's third and final version of The Crime of Father Amaro, published in 1880. In it he sets out to expose the hypocrisy of small-town, provincial Portugal, of so-called freethinkers and, in particular, the Church. In this blackest of comedies, Eça de Queirós depicts the destructive effects of celibacy on a priest lacking any true vocation. Father Amaro, whose name means 'bitter in Portuguese, sours for ever the life of the young Amelia. It is a novel in which the innocent are condemned and the guilty prosper.

'Queirós is far greater than my own dear master, Flaubert.' - Emile Zola

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