O Centenário de Eça de Queirós na Imprensa

Abstract

This article aims to carry out a non-extensive analysis of what was written in the Portuguese press about Eça de Queirós at the time of its first centenary of birth, in 1945. The analysed texts were written by Portuguese intellectuals and ideologues such as António Ferro, António Eça de Queiroz, Vieira de Almeida and Rocha Martins, and published in newspapers such as Diário de Notícias, A República and As Novidades. The aim of this work is to analyse the extent to which, in the dictatorial context in which the Queirosian centenary took place, the debate about the 19th century author became a substitute for debates banned by the various forms of repression that dominated the Portuguese public sphere.