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Aluísio Azevedo was born on April 14, 1857 in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil.
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O touro negro (Portuguese Edition)
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"O touro negro", cujo título foi emprestado do primeiro texto da obra, trata-se de um livro póstumo de Aluísio Azevedo. Nele, foram reunidos textos avulsos do autor (contos, crônicas e cartas) publicados por ele em vida apenas em páginas de gazetas. Ainda assim, o leitor observará o português, não apenas correto, mas elegante e saboroso, perfeitamente adequado às exigências do assunto.
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O MULATO (Portuguese Edition)
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O Esqueleto (Portuguese Edition)
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The Slum (Library of Latin America)
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First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realistic descriptions, archetypal situations, detailed local coloring, and overall race-consciousness may well evoke Huckleberry Finn as the novel's North American equivalent. Yet Azevedo also exhibits the naturalism of Zola and the ironic distance of Balzac; while tragic, beautiful, and imaginative as a work of fiction, The Slum is universally regarded as one of the best, or truest, portraits of Brazilian society ever rendered. This is a vivid and complex tale of passion and greed, a story with many different strands touching on the different economic tiers of society. Mainly, however, The Slum thrives on two intersecting story lines. In one narrative, a penny-pinching immigrant landlord strives to become a rich investor and then discards his black lover for a wealthy white woman. In the other, we witness the innocent yet dangerous love affair between a strong, pragmatic, "gentle giant" sort of immigrant and a vivacious mulatto woman who both live in a tenement owned by said landlord. The two immigrant heroes are originally Portuguese, and thus personify two alternate outsider responses to Brazil. As translator David H. Rosenthal points out in his useful Introduction: one is the capitalist drawn to new markets, quick prestige, and untapped resources; the other, the prudent European drawn moth-like to "the light and sexual heat of the tropics." A deftly told, deeply moving, and hardscrabble novel that features several stirring passages about life in the streets, the melting-pot realities of the modern city, and the oft-unstable mind of the crowd, The Slum will captivate anyone who might appreciate a more poetic, less political take on the nineteenth-century naturalism of Crane or Dreiser.
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Mulatto (Texas Pan American Series)
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In 1881, Brazilian Aluisio Azevedo published Mulatto, a scathing expose of his native city, Sao Luis do Maranhao. Polemic as well as love story, it brought him much notoriety and is generally considered the first Brazilian naturalist novel. Set before the abolition of slavery and the establishment of the first republic, Mulatto tells the story of Raimundo, a young Brazilian of liberal ideas. Kept in ignorance of the identity of his mother and the secret of his mixed birth, Raimundo is educated in Europe and, upon returning to Brazil, struggles against the provincial and bigoted society he encounters. Mulatto reveals its author's opposition to both the clergy, whose corruption and influence he denounced, and the racist agrarian society still dependent upon slavery. This English translation of Mulatto was first published in 1990 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Obras Completas de Aluísio Azevedo III: Contos Completos (Edição Definitiva) (Portuguese Edition)
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O terceiro volume das obras completas de Aluísio Azevedo reúne todos os contos do autor de O Cortiço e O Mulato, agora em nova edição revisada conforme o novo acordo ortográfico. São ao todo 20 histórias do fundador do naturalismo literário brasileiro, todas em texto integral, extraídas das coletâneas Pégadas e Demônios, publicadas em 1893 e 1897: I. Demônios II. O macaco azul III. Aos vinte anos IV. Das notas de uma viúva V. Uma lição VI. Músculos e nervos VII. O madeireiro VIII. Polítipo IX. No Maranhão X. Como o Demo as arma XI. Vícios XII. Último lance XIII. O Impenitente XIV. Pelo caminho XV. Resposta XVI. Heranças XVII. A serpente XVIII. Fora de horas XIX. Inveja (Os passarinhos) XX. Insepultos (Cadáveres insepultos) Confira todos os volume da série: Obras Completas de Aluísio Azevedo I: Romances vol. 1 (1879-1887) Obras Completas de Aluísio Azevedo II: Romances vol. 2 (1889-1901) Obras Completas de Aluísio Azevedo III: Contos Completos Obras Completas de Aluísio Azevedo IV: Teatro Completo Obras Completas de Aluísio Azevedo V: Crônicas e outros escritos
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Aluízio Azevedo
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also known as
Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo
Education
At the age of 19, Aluísio Azevedo began studying at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, where he revealed his gifts to the drawing.
Career
Aluísio Azevedo followed a career in the diplomatic service, with literature as an avocation. His early work was strongly influenced by Romanticism, but in 1881, with the publication of O Mulato ("The Mulatto"), he identified himself with the French Naturalist school, and was the instigator of this tendency in Brazil. O Mulato, a passionate and powerful work, deals with the bitter racial problems of his native province. Azevedo, moved by a turbulent imagination which occasionally seems almost morbid, sometimes allows his early Romanticism to divert him from the channels of pure Naturalism, while at other times his devotion to the precepts of Zola is carried to extremes. He is always a faithful Naturalist in respect to description and richness of detail, but his objectivity is often vitiated by his passionate identification with his theme. In his most famous novel, O Cortiço (1890), available in English as A Brazilian Tenement, he demonstrates his gifts as an impressionist. His description of slum life in Rio de Janeiro and of Brazilian middle-class genteel vulgarity, both of which he knew at first hand, attain a high novelistic quality. A social rather than a psychological analyst, he achieves his best effects in the incisive description of exterior detail, in the representation of typical rather than individualized behavior, and in the projection of local dialect. Thus, he is primarily a novelist of manners, a collectivist who rarely creates a great character, but who presents prevailing social types with extraordinary exactness and intensity of characterization. In O Cortiço, A Casa de pensão (1884) ("The Boarding House"), and O Homem (1887) ("The Man"), Azevedo, nevertheless, has left a rich impression of certain aspects of Brazilian society in his time.
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Obras Completas de Aluísio Azevedo III: Contos Completos (Edição Definitiva) (Portuguese Edition)
(O terceiro volume das obras completas de Aluísio Azevedo ...)
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The Slum (Library of Latin America)
(First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's master...)
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O touro negro (Portuguese Edition)
("O touro negro", cujo título foi emprestado do primeiro t...)
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Mulatto (Texas Pan American Series)
(In 1881, Brazilian Aluisio Azevedo published Mulatto, a s...)
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O Esqueleto (Portuguese Edition)
(Este eBook foi convertido ao formato digital por uma comu...)
- O MULATO (Portuguese Edition)
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Obras Completas de Aluísio Azevedo III: Contos Completos (Edição Definitiva) (Portuguese Edition)
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Brazilian