{"product_id":"the-farce-9798199853828","title":"The Farce","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): M. Smouch | Raul Brandão\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - 19th Century - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmazon Book Description - \u003ci\u003eThe Farce\u003c\/i\u003e by Raul Brand�o\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, Raul Brand�o transforms a provincial Portuguese town into a stage of grief, hypocrisy, poverty, religious fear, social cruelty, and spiritual anguish. Around a deathbed, a coffin shop, old women wrapped in ritual piety, and ruined lives consumed by resentment, Brand�o builds one of the most haunting psychological landscapes in Portuguese literature.\u003cbr\u003eAt the center of the novel stands Candidinha, a woman shaped by humiliation, hunger, envy, and a lifelong thirst for revenge. Around her move Sofia, Anacleto, Joana, Antoninho, and a gallery of grotesque yet profoundly human figures, each trapped between misery and illusion. Brand�o's prose is intense, atmospheric, and visionary: fog, granite, rain, death, silence, and despair become living presences.\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in the early twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eThe Farce\u003c\/i\u003e is not merely a social novel. It is a dark meditation on the masks people wear, the violence hidden beneath respectability, and the tragic comedy of human existence. This English translation brings to modern readers a powerful work of Portuguese literary modernism, preserving the author's dense imagery, moral intensity, and unforgettable voice.\u003cbr\u003eFor readers of Dostoevsky, E�a de Queir�s, Camilo Castelo Branco, Jos� Saramago, and European psychological fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Farce\u003c\/i\u003e offers a disturbing, poetic, and deeply original encounter with the human soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968414793879,"sku":"9798199853828","price":1429.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199853828.webp?v=1782917889","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-farce-9798199853828","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}