José Geraldo Vieira

Among them the authors: Albert Schweitzer, Alphonse Daudet, Bertrand Russell, Dostoievski, Emil Ludwig, Erskine Caldwell, François Mauriac, Hemingway, Mark Twain, Mika Waltari, Níkos Kazantzákis, Pirandello, Stendhal, Thomas Merton and Tolstoy.

As a writer, José Geraldo Vieira is noted for his strong, image-laden evocations of setting, as well as his explorations of human emotional conflict in the context of religious and moral questions.

Acclaimed novels such as “The Slope of Memory”, “The Woman Who Escaped from Sodom”, “The Albatross” and “The Fortieth Door” have primarily urban settings - Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paris - although they also include vivid evocations of pastoral landscapes such as, in the case of “The Fortieth Door”, rural Portugal.

Vieira also uses the tumultuous events of the twentieth century, such as the first and second World Wars and the Russian Revolution, to universalize the experiences of his characters.

The translation was completed by the author's grandson, Roberto Geraldo van Eyken, and published by Kirion Press.