Anticlericalismo em mutação: as três versões de O Crime do Padre Amaro (1875-1876-1880), de Eça de Queirós

Abstract

The research aims at studying the three different versions of O Crime do Padre Amaro (1875, 1876, 1880) through the lens of religiosity, anticlericalism and politics. Opening the study, a summary of the historical moment of each of the versions of the book will be presented. The work of José Maria Eça de Queirós is usually presented in three phases: the author of the first moment, said to be romantic, of Prosas Bárbaras (1866-1867) and of the first version of O Crime do Padre Amaro (1875); the creator (possibly attracted by realism/naturalism) of the second and the third versions of O Crime do Padre Amaro (1876 e 1880) and of Primo Basílio (1878). Furthermore, a third phase, unlinked to specif norms of style, of O Mandarim (1880), A Relíquia (1887), Os Maias (1888), A ilustre casa de Ramires (Posthumous, 1900) and A cidade e as serras (Posthumous, 1901). The literary history of O Crime do Padre Amaro starts in 1875, and continues in two other editions, in 1876 and 1880. The objective of the study, when revisiting the three versions of O Crime do Padre Amaro is, above all, having Queirós creation process on screen, as to find the key points which led the author to rewrite it twice. Our discussion hypotheses to the problem in question is related to the theories of realism-naturalism and with Eça s anticlericalism