Ramalho Ortigão
1836–1915
Biography
José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão (1836–1915) was a Portuguese writer and critic. He was born in Porto, in the north of the country, and died in Lisbon in 1915. He wrote satirical chronicles, criticism of art and manners, and other prose, and in the 1870s he was among the writers who gave Portuguese prose a sharper critical edge.
His most important joint work was As Farpas, a long series of satirical chronicles on public life, society and the press in Portugal, written in partnership with the novelist Eça de Queirós from the early 1870s. Eça de Queirós is now regarded as one of the greatest Portuguese novelists, and their collaboration is among the best-known partnerships in Portuguese literature. The series shows a critic's eye for the manners and pretensions of its time.
The book on this site, O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra, was written by the two of them, and its title places it on the road to Sintra, the hill town near Lisbon. It is a mystery story, and it gives readers a narrative side of their writing, alongside the satire for which Ramalho Ortigão is better known. It is a useful starting point for anyone who wants to see how he worked with a novelist.
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Books
O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra
by Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão
Two young writers, Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão, published this in 1870 as anonymous letters to the editor of Lisbon's Diário de Notícias, reporting a baffling crime on the road to Sintra. It is a detective story that mocks the sensational serials of the day, written for…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.