A era Meiji nos textos de Eça de Queirós

Abstract

Best known as one of the major Lusophone novelists, Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) was also a prolific journalist. He wrote since the 60s of the nineteenth century to the end of his life in various Portuguese, Brazilian and French journals. Although he never visited Japan, the author of Os Maias dedicated some texts (or parts of texts) to the Meiji society. In this article we intend to examine how the famous Portuguese writer represented the “Land of the Rising Sun” to his readers, verifying if there is a consonant or dissonant discourse with the Japonistic aesthetics, present in Europe’s fin-de-siècle.