The project aims at the constitution of a literary corpus of novels by Portuguese authors to integrate the European corpus ELTeC – European Literary Text Collection. It assures the Portuguese contribution to the development of good practices and computational methods of textual analysis adapted to the European literary traditions, on the one hand, and to the study and analysis of fundamental concepts of Portuguese and European literary theory and history, on the other, in the context and development of the action CA 16204 – Distant Reading for European Literary History (http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA16204). The integration of the Portuguese language and culture in this European corpus lets the joint development of new methods and new ways of conceiving European literary history, in the context of international cooperation projects, allowing the creation of new theoretical and practical frameworks and the contrastive analysis of languages and cultures through innovative and sophisticated data-based computational methods.