A Ilustre Casa de Ramires: entrecruzamento da ficção com a História em Eça de Queirós

• Autor(a) principal: Matias, Felipe dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4826
• topic: A Ilustre casa de Ramires; Literatura; História; Eça de Queirós; Romance histórico; The Illustrious House of Ramires; Literature; History; Eça de Queirós; Historical novel; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

The purpose of this study is to carry out a research on History and Literature in the novel The Illustrious House of Ramires (1900), by the Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós, aiming to show how his fiction builds up the representation of historical events, and discussing the discursive and narrative dimension, both in Literature and History. A theoretical-critical analysis is methodologically developed in the narrative The Illustrious House of Ramires, allowing the intersection of history and fiction: the historical novel "The Tower of D. Ramires", written by the character Gonçalo Mendes Ramires, an impoverished aristocrat, decadent, who had weak moral values. This analysis is developed from the theoretical studies that focus on the relationship between Literature and History, and the historical novel as a hybrid genre that makes these relationships possible. In this context, Georg Lukacs’ study, The Historical Novel, is the guiding point. The theories of dialogism, by Mikhail Bakhtin, and intertextuality, by Julia Kristeva, are also valuable for this study, because they allow the comprehension of essential elements in the construction of the Portuguese writer’s novel, once the writing of the historical novel "The Tower of D. Ramires", named "The Last Eça" by traditional critics, allows the dialogism with Walter Scott, Alexandre Herculano and the intertextuality with their respective novels in this genre. The historical novel "The Tower of D. Ramires", created by the character Gonçalo throughout the narrative, transforms History into a reason of representation and a theme of rewriting the portrayed period, the Middle Age at the time of D. Alfonso II. Eça de Queirós’ fictional text promotes a rereading of the Portuguese past and a questioning of the present, the declining end of the nineteenth century in Portugal. The emergence of History in the development of the narrative implies an attitude of interpretation of the Portuguese identity, especially in relation to values and attitudes that were consolidated in medieval times and that, at the end of the nineteenth century, were corrupted and disfigured. This research emphasizes the relevance of the book The Illustrious House of Ramires, in the production of the Portuguese writer, as a text that sets up a provocative intersection of Literature and History, as well as the artistic importance of the last phase of the Portuguese writer - called "The Last Eça" – period during which he – unlike the beliefs of the traditional criticism that argued that "The Last Eça" was a passive and accommodating bourgeois – continued to contribute to the critical examination of the Lusitanian society at the end of the nineteenth century, especially in relation to the questioning that the writer articulates, in the novel, about the decadent aristocracy of Portugal.