O Cortiço
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O Cortiço is an influential Brazilian novel written in 1890 by Aluísio Azevedo. The novel depicts a part of Brazil's culture in the late 19th century, represented by a variety of colorful characters l
O Cortiço
Naturalism (literature)
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Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scienti
O Cortiço
…colorful characters living in a single Rio de Janeiro tenement. It is written with the intention of belonging to the Realism movement leaning towards Naturalism, much like Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Azevedo's The Slum tells the stories of Portuguese and other European immigrants, mulattos, and former African…
Excerpt from the naturalistic book "Le sou du mutilé". Written by Cyriel Buysse in the beginning of the 20th century.