movement death_date death_place birth_place imagesize nationality birth_date signature image article_title name occupation
realism , romanticism 16 august 1900 paris , france póvoa de varzim , portugal 200px portuguese 25 november 1845 assinatura eça de queirós.png eça de queirós c. 1882.jpg josé maria de eça de queirós
 josé maria de eça de queirós novelist/consul
josé maria de eça de queirós

josé maria de eça de queiroz or eça de queirós -lrb- ; 25 november 1845 -- 16 august 1900 -rrb- is generally considered to be the greatest portuguese writer in the realist style .
zola considered him to be far greater than flaubert .
the london `` observer '' critics rank him with dickens , balzac and tolstoy .
eça never officially rejected catholicism , and in many of his private letters he even invokes jesus and uses expressions typical of catholics , but was very critical of the catholic church of his time , and of christianity in general -lrb- also protestant churches -rrb- as is evident in some of his novels .
during his lifetime , the spelling was `` eça de queiroz '' and this is the form that appears on many editions of his works ; the modern standard portuguese spelling is `` eça de queirós '' .
