Ligações perigosas: a família portuguesa, na narrativa curta, durante a Regeneração

Abstract

Besides discussing the great issues of humanity - the political divisions and social injustice - the nineteenth-century writers to interfere in issues of everyday life, which fit the stories perfectly. Domestic life, hitherto restricted to four walls, has become problematic in the short fiction narratives, cut to play lights over the microcosm of family relationships. The objective is, with this work, by analyzing eleven stories clipped out of the literary production of five authors of relevance in the period known as Regeneração the conflicts with which the portuguese family encountered, as well as the possible outputs in the face of stiff rules of decorum and civility that prevailed in that society. Through the link between history and literature is intended to broaden the understanding of beliefs and values and the evolution of mentalities. In contributing to the formation of the readers, attracted by the dilemma between tradition and innovation, the writers of the nineteenth century brought the novel to its highest expression. And deepened the fissures of a world in transition