A Correspondência de Fradique Mendes: Memórias e Notas (Classicos Da Literatura Portuguesa) (Portuguese Edition)

Fradique Mendes, modernist poet, philosopher, ultracivilized and well-traveled sophisticate, the St. Paul of 'Babism,' never existed. A creation of Eça de Queirós, Mendes' life and 'philosophy' is told in the biography and letters in A Correspondência de Fradique Mendes. But, like the 'poetry' that he creates, Fradique Mendes is form without content; good manners, knowledge and experience, but not productive. As such he is Queirós' critique of the morality and conduct of the bourgoeisie.