Houses of the Houses in The Maias and The City and the Mountains by Eça de Queirós

Abstrakt

Eça de Queirós, a leading figure of Portuguese Realism, depicted in his two novels The Maias and The City and the Mountains the relation of the last members of distinguished families to their mansions. Picturing the houses, he analyses and criticizes the socienty of that time.

Klíčová slova

• Eça de Queirós
• Realism
• Naturalism
• house
• dynasty
• society