THE DIAPHANOUS VEIL OF SATIRE: EÇA’S MESSAGE TO MACHADO IN THE CITY AND THE MOUNTAINS

Authors

  • Kenneth David Jackson Yale University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-847X_6_3

Keywords:

Eça de Queirós, Machado de Assis, critiques, literary mirroring

Abstract

By the late 1890s Eça de Queirós had certainly read Machado’s two major novels to date, the Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1880-81) and Quincas Borba (1890), after acknowledging Machado’s critiques of Cousin Bazilio, published in O Cruzeiro in April, 1878. A novel form of indirect communication between the two authors can be located in their fiction. In The City and the Mountains (1901) Eça replies indirectly to Machado with a satire of several of Machado’s main themes in the two novels, from the philosophy of “Humanitism” to the useful work of worms.

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Published

2016-03-20

Issue

Vol. 6 (2016): Eça and Machado: Transatlantic Dialogues

Section

Secção Temática

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Copyright (c) 2016 Kenneth David Jackson

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