by José de Alencar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788508052158
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«A Pata da Gazela» is the romantic novel by José de Alencar, published by Ática in paperback (96 pages, in Portuguese).
The action takes place in the bourgeois salons of Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century, where a complicated love triangle becomes the axis of the plot. The novel reinterprets the Cinderella story with ironic humor and uses the narrative to portray and criticize the conventions of Rio society at the time.
Novel originally published in 1870; this edition is part of the Série Bom Livro collection.
For readers of Brazilian classics and romantic novels with a backdrop of social criticism.
José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian novelist, lawyer, politician, orator, and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as "Indianism". Sometimes he signed his works with the pen name Erasmo. He was patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
