O cortiço

De Aluísio Azevedo

Os personagens principais desta obra são os moradores de um cortiço no Rio de Janeiro, precursor das favelas, onde moram os excluídos, os humildes, todos aqueles que não se misturavam com a burguesia e que possuíam seus problemas e vícios, decorrentes do meio em que viviam. O autor descreve a sociedade brasileira da época, formada por portugueses, burgueses, negros e mulatos, pessoas que desejavam cada vez mais poder e pensavam em si próprias, ao mesmo tempo em que presenciavam a miséria ou a simplicidade de outros.

• Idioma: Português
• Editora: Paulus Editora
• Data de lançamento: 5 de set. de 2014
• ISBN: 9788534940306

Avaliações de O cortiço

[bale_5 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

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 translated into a symphony of the written word. This, is the magic of Azevedo . An outstanding novel.

[hemlokgang · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

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!