Haute qualité By the Rivers of Babylon and Other Stories by Jorge de Sena by De Sena, Jorge

Product Name: Haute qualité By the Rivers of Babylon and Other Stories by Jorge de Sena by De Sena, Jorge
EAN：9780813516882 haute qualité UPC：9780813516882 ISBN：9780813516882 MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 176 pages
From Publishers Weekly:
This modest collection of short stories, written between 1946 and 1964, is the first by this influential Portuguese man of letters to be published in English. Their subjects often prominent historical figures, all are densely written, cerebral. The title story describes the tortured creative process of a famous 16th century Portuguese poet as he sets out to write his most celebrated poem. "A Night of Nativity" reports a fervent conversation between a Roman tribune and St. Paul. The whimsical "Sea of Stones" tells how the seventh century English monk, the Venerable Bede, forced the stones of an ancient Druid temple to speak. These 11 short stories are for the most part highly moralistic, at their best arguing the strict Catholic tenets of faith; less successful are the authors anguished attempts to describe the artistic temperament. Tantalizing by the promise they show, the short narratives are unfleshed, lacking the spark of animation. As a collection, with an informative foreword by the authors close colleague, they supplement our scant knowledge of this scholar and social activist..