The last Eça de Queirós in the brazilian literary critic the first half of the twentieth century

Abstract

This paper presents the position of Brazilian literary criticism regarding the last fictional works of Eça de Queirós (A correspondência de Fradique Mendes, A ilustre casa de Ramires, 1900, and A cidade e as serras, 1901), verifying how it launched the first configurations of the “last Eça”, that would be constantly revisited by later readings. In order to carry out this study, we opted to analyze the Brazilian criticism of the first half of the 20th century, especially the representative studies at that time. They are: Eça de Queiroz (1911), by Miguel Mello; Eça de Queiroz e o Século XIX (1938), by Viana Moog; História Literária de Eça de Queiroz (1939), by Álvaro Lins; Os tipos de Eça de Queiroz (1940), by José de Melo Jorge and Retratos de Eça de Queiroz (1945), by José Maria Bello.