Mar 29th, 2016

The Slum

A Classics, Brazil, Cultural book. E aquela msica de fogo doidejava no ar como um aroma quente de plantas brasileiras, em torno das quais se...

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...

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Depois abraou-se s pernas da filha e, no arrebatamento de sua comoo, beijou-lhe repetidas vezes a barriga e parecia querer beijar tambm aquele sangue abenoado, que lhes abria os horizontes da vida, que lhes garantia o futuro; aquele sangue bom, que descia do cu, como a chuva benfazeja sobre uma pobre terra esterilizada pela seca. Alusio Azevedo, O Cortio // Naquela mulata estava o grande mistrio, a sntese das impresses que ele recebeu chegando aqui: ela era a luz ardente do meio-dia; ela era o calor vermelho das sestas da fazenda; era o aroma quente dos trevos e das baunilhas, que o atordoara nas matas brasileiras; era a palmeira virginal e esquiva que se no torce a nenhuma outra planta; era o veneno e era o acar gostoso; era o sapoti mais doce que o mel e era a castanha do caju, que abre feridas com o seu azeite de fogo; ela era a cobra verde e traioeira, a lagarta viscosa, a murioca doida, que esvoaava... Porque, s depois que o sol lhe abenoou o ventre; depois que nas suas entranhas ela sentiu o primeiro grito de sangue de mulher, teve olhos para essas violentas misrias dolorosas, a que os poetas davam o bonito nome de amor. A sua intelectualidade, tal como seu corpo, desabrochara inesperadamente, atingindo de sbito, em pleno desenvolvimento, uma lucidez que a deliciava e surpreendia. Alusio Azevedo, O Cortio //

The novel, "The Slum" provides a 19th century glimpse of Brazilian society via the misadventures of the founder and residents of a slum. Somehow Azevedo is able to convey a myriad of social tensions across multiple levels and he does so with incredible vividness, wonderful prose, and memorable characters. The reader is immersed in the... Despite starting a little slow (it took me a while to get into the story and get the 'rhythm'), I really enjoyed the book.Besides being a very complete book - there is romance, comedy, drama, blood, sex and a lot more -, one of the most remarkable points is that as the story develops itself, the slum grows, the characters grow, the... It is a story of greed but probably in a way that you havent read it before, I would recommend it to everyone, it is a great book!


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