Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo

Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo was born on the 14^th April 1857; he died on the 21^st January 1913. He was a Brazilian novelist, caricaturist, diplomat, a playwright and a writer of short stories. Initially, he was a romantic writer and later moved with the movement of the Naturalist. He was the man that introduced the Naturalist movement in the country with the novel he wrote called O Mulato in the year 1881.

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He was the founder and occupied the 4^th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from the year 1897 till he died in the year 1913.

Works

Novels

Ø  Uma Lágrima de Mulher (1880)

Ø  O Mulato (1881)

Ø  Mistérios da Tijuca, ou Girândola de Amores (1882)

Ø  Memórias de um Condenado, ou A Condessa Vésper (1882)

Ø  Casa de Pensão (1884)

Ø  Filomena Borges (1884)

Ø  O Homem (1887)

Ø  O Cortiço (1890)

Ø  O Coruja (1890)

Ø  A Mortalha de Alzira (1894)

Ø  O Livro de uma Sogra (1895)

Theatre plays

Ø  Os Doidos (1879)

Ø  Flor-de-lis (1882)

Ø  Casa de Orates (1882)

Ø  O Caboclo (1886)

Ø  Fritzmack (1889 — in partnership with Artur Azevedo)

Ø  A República (1890)

Ø  O Adultério (1891)

Ø  Em Flagrante (1891)

Miscellaneous

Ø  O Japão (chronicles — 1894)

Ø  Demônios (short stories — 1895)