Title : The Tragedy of Flower Street - Eça de Queiros - book

Summary :

At the Trindade Theatre, "Bluebeard" was being performed. The second act had just begun and the chorus of courtiers was retreating backwards in a semicircle, their backs bent, when, in a box above the balcony, to the left, the harsh creaking of a rusty lock, the sound of a chair being dragged, caused a few distracted glances to be raised here and there. Standing, a tall woman was slowly undoing the silver fasteners of a long black silk cloak lined with dark furs. [...] She immediately caused a sensation among the dozing audience. The theatre girls "had a field day," as the poet Roma, esteemed author of "Idylls and Reveries," said. And even a fat man who was below his box, turning around in a sudden movement of curiosity, slipped on a step of the balcony and fell: there was laughter. In just a few lines, Eça de Queiros weaves the fragile yet resilient spider's web into which he will inevitably ensnare his heroes. An unspeakable tragedy. The man whom Valery Larbaud considered "One of the greatest European novelists of the 19th century," focuses as much on the psychology of environments as on individual psychology, and is a master of twists and turns and suspense.

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