TY - BOOK AU - Azevedo,Aluísio TI - O Cortiço AV - PQ PY - 2022/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Man-woman relationships -- Fiction KW - Slums -- Fiction KW - Landlords -- Fiction KW - Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction KW - Immigrants -- Brazil -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Corti%C3%A7o Wikipedia page about this book: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Corti%C3%A7o; Release date is 2022-10-20; Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.); Originally published; Brazil: H. Garnier, 1897 N2 - "O Cortiço" by Aluísio Azevedo is a naturalist novel published in 1890. Set in a Rio de Janeiro tenement at the end of the nineteenth century, the work exposes exploitation and harsh living conditions under unchecked capitalism. The story follows Portuguese merchant João Romão's ruthless climb up the social ladder while chronicling the struggles of the tenement's diverse inhabitants. Their intertwined fates reveal how environment and instinct shape human behavior, as characters abandon families, pursue forbidden passions, and fight for survival in a world governed by the strongest. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9906721 UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69187 ER -