As Farpas (The Barbs) was a monthly publication started by the authors and journalists Ramalho Ortigão and Eça de Queirós.

The first edition that appeared on the newsstands in Lisbon was a booklet of about one hundred pages, with an orange cover, decorated with the devil Asmodeus, bearing the title "As Farpas" and with the subtitle "Monthly Chronicle of Politics, Letters and of Customs ".Initially, most of the articles were written by Eça but after the September-October 1872 issue he left the publication to pursue a diplomatic career in Havana,[3] leaving responsibility with Ramalho, who continued with it until 1882.

Articles considered adultery, clerical life, economic decay, and political and cultural degradation, themes that would later be developed in the novels of Eça de Queirós.

After his departure, the magazine under Ramalho Ortigão took on more of a pedagogical and moralizing tone, lacking the biting caricature provided by Eça de Queirós.

This was arguably the first literary work made from the condensation of journalistic articles, previously published in a newspaper or magazine, something that became common in the 20th Century.