On the Illustrious Instability of Houses: Introductory Notes on Eça de Queirós Oikos
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1517-106X/2025e69351Abstract
This article aims to offer an initial critical reflection on the representation of houses that permeate Eça de Queirós’s novelistic oeuvre, conceiving them as privileged sites not only for dramatizing the inherent theses in the author’s realist and/or naturalist novels, but also as critical loci from which one can discern a reflective space on the act of writing itself. This reflection concerns the spectrum of possibilities for the formulation and articulation of a novelistic thesis, taking into account the tension between the autonomous interiority of fiction and its economic relation to a heteronomous and prescriptive exterior. Such a reading foregrounds a discourse of crisis that reveals a historicized process of structural, rhetorical, and discursive instability within Queirós’s work as well as a self-critical mechanism for the survival and renewal of his literary project and his conception of realism.
Keywords: Eça de Queirós; House; Fiction; Novels.
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