Open AccessMOCKERY AND PIETY IN MACHADO DE ASSIS AND EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
Author(s) -
Dain Borges
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
revista de estudos literários
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2183-847X
DOI - 10.14195/2183-847x_6_4
Subject(s) - piety , secularization , humanities , art , sociology , art history , religious studies , philosophy
The realist fictions of the Brazilian author Machado de Assis often explored religious themes through the presentation of keenly significant, minute details of everyday scenes and conversations. By contrast, the early novels of his contemporary Eça de Queirós demonstrate a preference for plotting broad dramatic climaxes. Machado and Eça coincide in exposing the unacknowledged secularization of Catholic consciences in Portugal and Brazil.