Os Três Amores de Benigno Reyes

by John-Antoine Nau, Diogo Paiva (translator)

Les trios amours de Benigno Reyes

92 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2012

About the author

A French writer (born in America) most famous for his satirical science-fiction novel Enemy Force, which was the first winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1903. His real name was Eugène Léon Édouard Torquet.

Reviews

[Fernando Pestana da Costa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the Portuguese translation of the French original Les Trois Amours de Benigno Reyes, a short novel by this presently almost forgotten writer that was born in the United States but emigrated to French while a child and later in life, as a writer he wrote in French. A story written in a beautiful style, with a subtle humor, whose plot takes place in the fictional coastal city of Toboadongo in the arid region of North Chile. Benigno Reyes, the protagonist, remembers his past loves, mainly the first one, Pepa, whom he never had declared to in his youth in Tenerife, and that now he thinks he finds her in a steamer of the Inca and Patagonian Company, or does he ? A very nice novel I definitely enjoyed.

[Zei · Rating 2 out of 5]

Le passé, le présent et le futur représentés par des femmes...l'adolescence/ l'enfance, l'âge adulte et la vieillesse qui se disputent le corps de l'homme et le laissent inassouvi ou le consument...
Quand la perfection n'est que ce qui aurait pu se passer et qui ne s'accomplit jamais en réalité...