The City and the Mountains (Pocket Edition)

"A very contemporary writer, concerned with man's place in civilization, with the excesses of technology, with what human beings achieved and how they began to be consumed by these achievements." Folha de São Paulo Marked by intense irony, The City and the Mountains tells the story of Jacinto, a fortunate heir to the old Portuguese rural aristocracy, whose comfortable and wealthy life in Paris he is forced to leave to attend to family matters in the fictional Tormes, a small mountain village in Portugal. Bored and unhappy in the big city, Jacinto comes into contact with a rustic and natural landscape previously unknown, discovering a new way of life that he decides to experiment with. Eça de Queirós's last book, published a year after his death, The City and the Mountains is one of the landmarks of the author's final phase of production, in which he seems to reevaluate the concept of "civilization" so fashionable in the 19th century. This work is undoubtedly an example of the modernity of a writer who focused on the painful experience of staying alive in a time of constant transformation.