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You will enjoy this if you like short tales with irony and heart, from myth and legend to city comedy, and if you enjoy a storyteller who plays with the Bible and Homer.
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What if the first man were a hairy, frightened creature who has only just climbed down from a tree? Eça de Queirós, the Portuguese novelist, opens this collection with exactly that, then moves on to a waiter poet, a devoted housewife, a rich man bored by gadgets, a dead man on a gallows and Ulysses on a goddess's island. Twelve tales, one sharp and playful eye. The first key idea starts in Eden.
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- 1Adam steps out of the forest into EdenFree
- 2Paradise offers danger as well as plenty
- 3A waiter in London dreams in Greek
- 4A model wife meets a famous cousin
- 5Too many gadgets leave Jacinto bored
- 6Three brothers find gold and a friar offers help
- 7Macario's love and a nurse's loyalty
- 8A ladder, a gallows and a ghostly guide
- 9Ulysses watches the sea and Galilee hears of miracles
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Adam steps out of the forest into Eden
The title story retells Genesis with a wink. Adam is no gleaming statue. He is a shaggy, wide-eyed creature who slides down a tree at two in the afternoon on a date the author borrows from Bishop Usserius, and he is terrified of everything.
He wanders to a river, flinches at crocodiles and snakes, and reaches the sea. There two huge sea monsters fight on the sand, and one dies. Adam, hungry, tastes meat for the first time and finds he cannot go back to fruit. At night every beast in Paradise gathers around him as he sleeps, hoping to wipe out this strange new rival. But a white angel with a living sword of fire keeps watch over him.
At dawn Adam wakes with a warm weight at his side. It is Eve. The tale hints at its main idea here: the first people are not served by a gentle garden but pushed by danger, and danger will make them human.
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About 5 h 10 min to read.Questions about Adán y Eva en el Paraíso
What is Adam and Eve in Paradise about?
It is a collection of twelve tales by Eça de Queirós. The title story retells Genesis with humor, and the others range from a London waiter poet to a ghost story, a saint's fable and a retelling of Ulysses on Calypso's island.
Which stories are in the collection?
They include Adam and Eve in Paradise, A Lyrical Poet, At the Mill, Civilization, The Treasure, Fray Genebro, The Peculiarities of a Blonde Girl, The Nurse, The Deceased, José Matías, The Perfection and The Gentle Miracle.
Is Adam and Eve in Paradise a true story?
No. The tales are fiction and fable, though they draw on the Bible, Homer, medieval legend and Portuguese society of the nineteenth century. The title story playfully mixes scripture with early science.
Who wrote Adam and Eve in Paradise?
Eça de Queirós writes these stories with irony and a sharp eye for society. They range from comedy and satire to legend and gentle fable.
Is Adam and Eve in Paradise worth reading?
It offers a different mood in each tale, with clear stories, vivid scenes and a humorous narrator. You can read one tale at a time, and the shorter fables work well on their own.