Dive into the gritty, atmospheric world of A Cidade do Vício (1882), a seminal work by Fialho de Almeida, one of Portugal’s foremost realist-naturalist writers. This collection of short stories exposes the moral decay and social inequalities of 19th-century urban and rural Portugal through vivid, often grotesque prose. Themes of vice, hypocrisy, and human frailty unfold in tales like Mater Dolorosa (a symbolic lament of loss) and Os Novilhos (a brutal rural drama)
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Dive into the gritty, atmospheric world of A Cidade do Vício (1882), a seminal work by Fialho de Almeida, one of Portugal’s foremost realist-naturalist writers. This collection of short stories exposes the moral decay and social inequalities of 19th-century urban and rural Portugal through vivid, often grotesque prose. Themes of vice, hypocrisy, and human frailty unfold in tales like Mater Dolorosa (a symbolic lament of loss) and Os Novilhos (a brutal rural drama)
Dive into the gritty, atmospheric world of A Cidade do Vício (1882), a seminal work by Fialho de Almeida, one of Portugal’s foremost realist-naturalist writers. This collection of short stories exposes the moral decay and social inequalities of 19th-century urban and rural Portugal through vivid, often grotesque prose. Themes of vice, hypocrisy, and human frailty unfold in tales like Mater Dolorosa (a symbolic lament of loss) and Os Novilhos (a brutal rural drama)