A Tragédia da Rua das Flores

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A Tragédia da Rua das Flores is a novel by the Portuguese poet Eça de Queirós . It was written in Newcastle in 1877/1878. The manuscript remained in the family's hands for a hundred years and was not published until 1980. It deals with an incestuous love story between a mother and her son.

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The novel is set in Portugal 50 years before it was written. The young Joaquina da Ega lives in Lisbon with her husband Pedro da Ega. Two months after the birth of her son, she left her husband and child in order to follow to Spain with another man. There she leads the life of a courtesan . She later lives in Paris with the old Senator Molineux. After the end of Bonapartism and the death of the senator, she returned to Lisbon and settled on Rua das Flores under the name Genoveva de Molineux, which she had adopted in Francedown and begins a relationship with Dâmaso de Mavião, the rich son of a moneylender. It wasn't long before she fell in love with 23-year-old Vítor. Vítor is a young lawyer who lives with his uncle Timóteo, an old judge. Instead of the rights, he is more interested in the books of Musset , Lord Byron and Tennyson . On her 40th birthday Genoveva throws her boyfriend Dâmaso out of the house to go to Paris with Vítor. His uncle Timóteo tries to prevent this and informs her that Vítor is her son. When she sees Vítor coming out of the window, she throws herself from the balcony and dies. Her son never learns the background to her death.

Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a series for Portuguese television in 1981 under the direction of Ferrão Katzenstein .

expenditure

  • A Tragédia da Rua das Flores. Postage 1982.

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