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 creationof 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.