Czech Inkling and Ibero-Slav Complicity in the Fradique Mendes Mystification

Abstract

Paper presented at the conference of Eastern and Central European Lusitanists corroborates a Czech inspiration in Eça de Queirós' Correspondence of Fradique Mendes (1900) and situates the protagonist's Slav sympathies in a broader context - from Iberian and Slav mystifications of Prosper Mérimée to the biography of Honoré Balzac -, explaining them by a more general complicity of "outsiders" on the contemporary European culture map.

Keywords

• Fradique Mendes
• Libuska´s Judgement
• Prosper Mérimée´s La Guzla
• Madame Hanska
• cultural periphery and center