O Cortiço (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

O Cortiço (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition) image
ISBN-10:

0850515017

ISBN-13:

9780850515015

Released: Feb 04, 2005
Format: Paperback, 200 pages
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Description:

Representing the height of Brazilian Naturalism, O Cortiço is Aluísio Azevedo's critique of unchecked ambition in Brazilian society of his day. João Romão, an imigrant Portuguese man, builds a tenement (Cortiço) on the money and work of his mulatto lover, Bertoleza. The tenement's residents fight with those of another tenement, leading to a fire that destroys much of the building. But Romão rebuilds and is soon wealthy and looks to marry an educated woman, leaving Bertoleza, who kills herself.












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