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The Slum is a tale of passion and greed. A penny-pinching immigrant landlord becomes a rich capitalists and discards his black lover for a wealthy white woman.

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Publicado em 1890, O Cortiço põe olhos sobre os marginalizados: lavadeiras, trabalhadores braçais, malandros e viúvas pobres.

Esses tipos são guiados pelos instintos, vícios e sexo, determinados pelo meio miserável em que vivem.

O olhar darwinista de Aluísio Azevedo posicionou o romance como a expressão máxima do Naturalismo na literatura brasileira.

No Rio de Janeiro do século XIX, o ambicioso português João Romão põe em prática seu plano de riqueza.

Com trabalho duro, avareza e desonestidade, levanta um conjunto de 95 casinhas; o maior cortiço da região.

A vida não tarda a brotar desse chão, fervilhante. Um organismo autônomo formado por aquela gente amontoada em cubículos, em busca da sobrevivência.

O Cortiço é um show more retrato das mazelas sociais que atingiam a capital do Império, sob a visão cientificista de um escritor que levou ao extremo a estética realista da época.

Uma obra que continua atual, tanto em sua temática quanto em sua linguagem.
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Publicado em 1890, O Cortiço põe olhos sobre os marginalizados: lavadeiras, trabalhadores braçais, malandros e viúvas pobres.

Esses tipos são guiados pelos instintos, vícios e sexo, determinados pelo meio miserável em que vivem.

O olhar darwinista de Aluísio Azevedo posicionou o romance como a expressão máxima do Naturalismo na literatura brasileira.

No Rio de Janeiro do século XIX, o ambicioso português João Romão põe em prática seu plano de riqueza.

Com trabalho duro, avareza e desonestidade, levanta um conjunto de 95 casinhas; o maior cortiço da região.

A vida não tarda a brotar desse chão, fervilhante. Um organismo autônomo formado por aquela gente amontoada em cubículos, em busca da sobrevivência.

O Cortiço é um show more retrato das mazelas sociais que atingiam a capital do Império, sob a visão cientificista de um escritor que levou ao extremo a estética realista da época.

Uma obra que continua atual, tanto em sua temática quanto em sua linguagem.
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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 tension between Portuguese immigrants and Brazilians, between mulattoes and blacks, between men and women, between upper and lower classes resulting in a rather head-spinning sensation. Azevedo's descriptions are at times disturbing and always revealing. At the end, I felt like I had just returned from a journey into a new culture which left me changed forever!
The Slum is a poignant portrayal of Brazilian life in the late 19th century. Issues related to ethnicity, social class and women’s role comprise the key elements in this impassioned novel by Aluisio Azevedo. Azevedo uses his characters to reveal how people are changed by their social position, environment and race relations. Men step on one another, discard women and disregard blacks as they move up the social ladder. Portraits of married women are dim. Portraits of black women fare worse. Somewhere, within this seemingly unenlightened view of Brazilian life, lie passion, beauty and imagination. That is, an artist’s unique ability to paint a harsh view of reality with a palate of colors that imbibes beauty; the beauty of life show more translated into a symphony of the written word. This, is the magic of Azevedo . An outstanding novel. show less
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The Slum ("O cortiço" in portuguese) is that kind of book that never gets old.
It was written in 1890, an important part of Naturalism's Literature in Brazil. Inspired by the concepts of evolution and skeptiscism where writers believed that a person is a product of it's environment, Azevedo writes this picture of that time's society.
It talks about the life in the slums by that time. It talks not only about the owner of the slum, but also about everyone that lives there. Every interesting fact about the dwellers' life is drawn with such naturality that it looks real, what makes the book action-packed and catchy. Every conflict is drawn vividly and immersivelly, it makes you feel like you were there witnessing everything. If I didn't know show more its publishing year, I could tell it was writen yesterday because it's a precise picture of Brazil (with a few minor differences).
Azevedo intended to do a five-book series, but he never went on with the idea. So, don't worry if you end up thinking that it's incomplete: it is, which is unfortunate.
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Um cortiço carioca no fim do século XIX condiciona a vida de seus moradores. Esta adaptação para HQ preservou a acidez, o humor e a riqueza de personagens da obra original.
Obra prima do Naturalismo brasileiro, "O Cortiço" conta a tragetória de João Romão, homem ambicioso, capaz de tudo para enriquecer. Paralelamente entrelaçada as histórias dos moradores do cortiço São Romão - entre eles o português Jerônimo e a sensual mulata Rita Baiana - e a luta diária pela sobrevivência

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Canonical title
The Slum
Original title
O Cortiço
Original publication date
1890
People/Characters
João Romão; Bertoleza; Rita Baiana; Piedade; Capoeira Firmo; Arraia-miúda (show all 8); Miranda; Jerônimo
Important places
Botafogo (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Brazil

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Fiction and Literature, Romance
DDC/MDS
869.3Literature & rhetoricSpanish, Portuguese, Galician literaturesLiteratures of Portuguese and Galician languagesPortuguese fiction
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PQ9697 .A93 .C613Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesPortuguese literatureProvincial, local, colonial, etc.Brazil
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6 — English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal)
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32