The Intellectual Tourist Fradique Mendes, or Twenty Centuries of Letters

Abstract

Attempt to situate the protagonist of Eça de Queirós’ late work The Fradique Mendes’ Correspondence as a paradoxical "picaro" on the intersection of Portuguese and European literature, of Reality and Fiction, of Classicality and Modernity.

Keywords

• Eça de Queirós
• Fradique Mendes
• late 19th-Century Portuguese literature