The Slum
ISBN: 9780195121872 | 0195121872
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/1/2000
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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 overallrace-consciousness may well evoke Huckleberry Finn as the novel's North American equivalent. Yet Azevedo also exhibits the naturalism of Zola and the ironic distance of Balzac; while tragic, beautiful, and imaginative as a work of fiction, The Slum is universally regarded a... MORE
| Series Editors' Introduction | ix | ||||
| Foreword | xiii | ||||
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| Afterword | 209 | (10) | |||
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| Chronology | 219 | (2) | |||
| Bibliography | 221 |
The Brazilian novelist Aluisio Azevedo (1857-1913) was also the author of A Woman's Tear, The Mulatto, and several other works. The late David H. Rosenthal was an accomplished translator of works from the Catalan (from 15th-century classics to modern poetry) and also wrote essays and books on many other topics, including Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965 (OUP, 1992).
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