The Slum
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The Slum is an influential novel by Aluísio Azevedo, written in 1880. He uses the narrative to illustrate Brazil's culture in the late nineteenth century. In one novel, Azevedo is able to depict several different aspects of society in Rio de Janeiro through a wide variety of characters, whose stories involve love, passion, envy, greed, hatred and murder.
Azevedo's The Slum tells the stories of Portuguese and other European immigrants, mulattos, and former African slaves living and working together in a single community. The novel explains the differences between the lackadaisical, yet passionate mulattos, and the hard-working, driven Portuguese. In addition the roles of women in the novel are very prevalent, with all female characters in one way or another revealing their purpose in the slum, whether labor, love, culture, or any combination of the three.
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