EÇA DE QUEIROZ AND «LIFE'S LOSERS»

Marina Tavares Dias
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THE LISBON OF EÇA DE QUEIROZ:

Eça de Queiroz, the most famous Portuguese novelist of the late 1800s, was part of a literary group with the provocative title os «Life's Losers» or «Losers of Life». They reunited during long evenings of delicious conversation and even more delicious suppers at Lisbon's best restaurants of the time. 

Here is a very raare photograph of «The Losers of Life» (with the exception of António Cândido) photographed by Augusto Bobone in 1889, in the garden of the house of the Count of Arnoso, on Rua de S. Domingos à Lapa: Marquês de Soveral (Luiz Pinto de Soveral, 1850-1922), Carlos Lima Mayer (1846-1910), Count of Sabugosa (António José de Mello Cezar de Menezes, 1854-1923), Oliveira Martins (1846-1894), Carlos Lobo d'Ávila (1860-1895), Eça (1845-1900) ), Ramalho Ortigão (1836-1915), Guerra Junqueiro (1850-1923), Count of Arnoso (Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Mello, 1855-1911) and Count of Ficalho (Francisco Manoel de Mello Breyner, 1837-1903).

«Paris made the Revolution, London gave us Shakespeare, Vienna gave Mozart, Berlin gave Kant, Lisbon... has given US – what the hell!»
- Eça de Queiroz in a letter to Ramalho Ortigão, July 20, 1873.
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It was Alis Ubbo to the Phoenicians, Olissipo to the Romans, Al-Ushbuna to the Arabs and Lisboa to the Portuguese. Today it belongs to everyone, and everyone can gaze upon its splendour from the viewpoint at Nossa Senhora do Monte and at the light, refracted by the river, which illuminates its hills and houses.