No extensive study exists that covers the foundation of the dramatic works of Enrique Pérez Escrich, therefore we believe it will be a positive use of our efforts in this thesis to examine this aspect of his literary personality. We will divide his works between dramas and comedies, dedicating a chapter to each.

FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / Em 1915, um dos romances mais lidos na Biblioteca Provincial do Cearà entre 1878 e 1887, A mulher adÃltera, do espanhol Enrique Perez Escrich, foi definido numa espÃcie de Ãndex como âuma obra indigna de um larâ. DefiniÃÃes como essa nÃo foram incomuns ao longo do sÃculo XIX quando se falava das histÃrias romanescas. Aqui, a leitura de um romance acontecia no meio de vÃrios impasses e interesses. Ou seja, consumir ficÃÃo impressa era uma prÃtica de muitos discursos cruzados. Por isso que falar dos usos histÃricos da leitura à contribuir para uma anÃlise da cultura do livro, seu lugar e significado numa determinada configuraÃÃo histÃrica. Nossa pesquisa discute as prÃticas de leitura na Biblioteca Provincial do Cearà na perspectiva de uma cartografia crÃtica do circuito das letras em Fortaleza nas Ãltimas dÃcadas do XIX. / In 1915, one of the most widely read novels in the Provincial Library of Cearà from 1878 to 1887, The Adulterous Woman, by the Spanish Enrique Perez Escrich, was defined, in a kind of index, as "an unworthy work for household". Definitions like that one were not uncommon during the XIX century, when there was talk of novelistic stories. At that time, reading a novel was done among several impasses and interests, that is, consuming fiction books was a practice discussed by many crossed speeches. That is why speaking about historical uses of reading is to contribute to an analyses of book culture and of its place and meaning in a particular historical situation. Our work discusses the reading practices in the Provincial Library of CearÃ, in the perspective of a critical mapping of books circuit in Fortaleza in the last decades of the XIX century.