Open AccessTHE DIAPHANOUS VEIL OF SATIRE: EÇA’S MESSAGE TO MACHADO IN THE CITY AND THE MOUNTAINS
Author(s) -
Kenneth David Jackson
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
revista de estudos literários
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2183-847X
DOI - 10.14195/2183-847x_6_3
Subject(s) - memoir , cousin , literature , history , art history , sociology , art , archaeology
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.