Eça de Queirós e os brasileiros

Abstract

This work analyses the design of the image of the Portuguese writer José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) in Brazil, based on the Brazilian seminal queirosian critique and verifying how the dialogue between such criticism and other critical readings about the author is established until the end of last century. For this study, the queirosian critique produced in Brazil was divided in three stages: the first, dating back to the first relative important critique about Eça, written by Machado de Assis in 1878 and it runs through until 1942 with the last book about the writer preceding the anniversary of the first ephemeris in 1945 with a set of texts, defined here as seminal critique; the second, featuring the publications that resumed the model of this seminal critique, by rereading the founding texts between the anniversaries of the two major ephemerides: 1945 and 2000 and finally, the third stage presents the publications that did not follow the seminal critique, opening new approaches concerning the life and work of Eça, making the same period between 1945 and 2000. Thus, it demonstrates the way in which the seminal criticism remains until nowadays as a founding element of the widespread image of the writer in Brazil.