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Diario del Hospicio y otros relatosDescription
A reference to the deep-rooted curse of the beginning of the last century, Lima Barreto (Rio de Janeiro, 1881-1922) created a work that goes against the grain of bourgeois narrative culture. The mulatto who went out drinking all night in the Lapa neighborhood only escaped from his city once, and both the material and the form of his narrative are in dialogue with it, with its language and with the multiple humiliations that he suffers, along with his characters, as an Afro-descendant worker of the popular class.
This book, which is composed of the Hospice Diary, the novel Cemetery of the Living and the story “How “the Man” Arrived”, allows us to read this extraordinary, violent and exquisite author, in Spanish, as a kind of embassy of the notable literary production of Brazil.