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In Search of a Phallus: Jacinto's True Quest in "A Cidade e As Serras"

Cidade e As Serras is a story of skeletons and closet cases. Indeed, a suppressed homoerotic framework structures the whole novel; Eça's narrator reveals, through possessive epithets and pulchritudinous appella-tions, the object of his desire, a 'belo Jacinto' who is repeatedly the 'príncipe' of the besotted José Fernandes.1 Of course, the love they share is one which dare not speak its name and, on the occasion when it does reduced to a coarse sexual act it process of urbanization José the Jacinto's from the ills of the city, from pollution and artificiality, from immorality, and from himself. An heirless dandy with no interest in Jacinto will return to his ancestral home to re-bury the bones of his forebears and, in the process, appears to be converted, or rather naturalized, to heterosexuality. Just how far his transformation is complete is a moot point, for the bones he buries are confused, and his narrator's possessive gaze is never fully relinquished, as will be discussed.