The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers - Complete Novels by Eça de Queirós

“It was at the Trindade Theatre, Bluebeard was being performed.” This is the setting where the action of The Tragedy of Rua das Flores begins, a novel by Eça de Queiroz which he himself described as a “cruel book” and which remained unpublished for over a century. Written between 1877 and 1878 and only published in 1980, this is the story of the fatal passion between Vítor and Genoveva, which Eça eventually left unrevised and unedited, but which served as a starting point for readers to receive his masterpiece, The Maias, in 1888.