Epistolary dialogues: Eça de Queiroz and the Portuguese scenes

Since the Eça de Queiroz’s death, in the year of 1900, a serie of editions sought to bring together different epistolary collections from the writer: letters of his work in the Consulate, intimate letters exchanged between his wife, children and friends, professional letters to his editors. In these...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Barbieri, Claudia
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2014
Country:Brasil
Institution:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repository:Letras de Hoje (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/15244
Online Access:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fale/article/view/15244
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Eça de Queiroz
Queirozian epistolography
Portuguese scenes
Epistolografia queiroziana
Cenas portuguesas
8.02.05.00-3 Teoria Literária
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Summary:Since the Eça de Queiroz’s death, in the year of 1900, a serie of editions sought to bring together different epistolary collections from the writer: letters of his work in the Consulate, intimate letters exchanged between his wife, children and friends, professional letters to his editors. In these private discourses were revealed aspects of his personality, literary projects, reviews and critiques of his work published or in the creation process. In his epistolography we found, for example, the extensive project of the Portuguese Scenes – idealized in the second half of the 1870s. In the lines of these letters exchanged between Eça, his editor Ernesto Chardron and his friends, we find the speech live, imaginative and clever characteristic of queirozian prose. It is about of the conception process and development of the Portuguese Scenes that’s what this article.