Artistic devices of citation in the novel “Cousin Bazilio” by J.M. Eça de Queirós

The article focuses on the category of artistic means of quotation in the novel “Cousin Bazilio” by J.M. Eça de Queirós, the most influential representative of Portuguese realism of the XIX century. The purpose of the study is to identify the specificity of the novel in terms of its connections with works of European literature. The objectives of the study consist in identifying the artistic means of quotation in the novel, analyzing these artistic means and determining their functions in the text, as well as building the typology, based on the characteristics of the considered artistic means and the tasks they perform in the text. The presence of numerous interliterary and intercultural connections in “Cousin Bazilio” distinguishes it both from Queirós’s first novel “The Crime of Father Amaro”, his subsequent novels, and from the works of the author’s main Portuguese predecessors: Camilo Castelo Branco and Júlio Dinis. From the analysis carried out in the article, it follows that the literary and cultural connections of “Cousin Bazilio” are introduced into the text through allusions, reminiscences and quotations. They can be divided into three categories depending on the artistic task performed: 1) narrative (“Madame Bovary” by G. Flaubert, “Eugénie Grandet” by H. Balzac); 2) thematic (“Faust” by J.W. Goethe, “The Divine Comedy” by Dante); 3) literaryanthropological (“Mademoiselle Giraud: my wife” by A. Belot, “The Maiden of Mabille” by H. Escoffier, etc.). The use of allusions, reminiscences and quotations in the novel aims to highlight the influence of French literature on shaping the aesthetic tastes of the Portuguese society and of the author himself, to fulfill plot-forming tasks in the novel and to place “Cousin Basilio” in the European cultural context, to reveal the inner world of the characters more completely and also to give them deeper features.