“Over the sturdy nakedness of truth
the diaphanous veil of phantasy.”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                            
A Relíquia (1887); The Relic, trans. Margaret Jull Costa (1994), epigraph.
 
 
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
    