Considered to be Portugal''s finest novelist, Eca de Queiroz was a master of satire who set out to expose the hypocrisy of his day. He accomplishes this magnificently in The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers'
Novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading intellectuals of the 'Generation of 1870'. Eça de Queiras introduced naturalism and realism to Portuguese literature. He is considered the major novelist of his generation. The French writer Emile Zola admired him greatly and said that Eça was "greater than Flaubert".
