O que não cabe nas palavras: peripécia e reconhecimento em Os Maias

This article looks at Os Maias from a particular point of view. First of all, underlining some topics of classical tragedy in Eça’s novel, in particular Oedipus the king, it builds its implacable progress. And then, it considers Eça’s revelation of the truth, this means, the moment when someone sees his life completely destroyed by a terrible revelation. We will see that models from tragedy, taken in different ways, are not completely forgotten.