Lucíola, by José de Alencar: summary, personages and literary context

Published in 1862, Luciola She was part of the project Perfis de Mulher, by the Brazilian romantic writer José de Alencar. Or urban romance, past Rio de Janeiro, revolves around the paixão between Paulo and Lúcia, uma courtesy.

I summarize

Luciola It is an urban romance that he feared as a cenário or Rio de Janeiro in the midst of the XIX century. Either the narrator, or the Ingênuo Paulo, terrified, born in 1855, at the age of 25, I came from Olinda (Pernambuco).

I know about Lúcia's profissão, Paulo apaixona-is at first glance when he is barred with a girl, no day that he is in the capital:

"- What a beautiful girl! I exclaimed for my companion, who I also admired. How should the soul that dwells on a cuddly face be pure! "

Logo to follow, na festa da Glória, Sá, seu melhor friend of him, or appresenta que or enfeitiçara. Pela interaction between Paulo and Sá na night of the dance barnacle-I know that Lúcia is a courtesy, even having been a former lover of Sá.

Lúcia, that of batismo chamava-se Maria da Glória, roubara or nome of a friend that will die. A escort for a life of courtesy and not willing to go: a young man was shared with the family for the Court and, during the month of February, in 1850, almost all of them, except the e uma tia, were contaminated.

"Meu pai, minha mãe, my hands, all of you fall down: só havia em pé minha tia e eu. A vizinha who saw us come, adoecera à noite e não amanheceu. No more was encouraged to make us company. We are in penúria; Some money that we have badly borrowed for a pharmacy. Or doctor, who gives us the grudge to treat, there is still a hole in it and it was wrong. For accumulation of despair, minha aunt uma manhã não pôde make her bed; I was also on February. Fiquei only! A 14-year-old girl to treat six serious patients, and to draw resources where she had not yet. I am not like I am not enlouched. "

As a desire to give support to the family, Lúcia cannot find another alternative to sell or own the body. Seu her first client of hers was a vizinho, or Couto, how she kept meeting when she was barely 14 years old. Esse homem invited you to go to her house in exchange for some fashionable ouro. Or pai de ella, ao uncovered or rumored that a filha tin has taken, expelled from home.

Paulo and Lúcia pass through regular encounters that end up strengthening, more and more, the relationship between the two of you. Após criarem certain intimidade, Lúcia tells his dramatic life story of her. Já enchanted by Paulo, she decides to abandon the life of courtesy and move-she eats irmã mais nova (Ana) for a small house in Santa Teresa. A move represents a radical change in the life of the young, who was used to a rotina de luxo:

We went one afternoon to dig through Santa Teresa in the direction of Caixa d'Água, when we saw Jacinto standing in front of a small house, repaired de novo, or Jacinto. Esse homem attracted me, Lúcia's irresistible hair; and meanwhile eu or detestava.

"- Pertence-lhe this house, Mr. Jacinto? disse-lhe Sá responding to courtesy.

- Não, senhor. It belongs to a person who knows him, Lúcia.

- What! Lúcia vem morar numa casa terrea e de duas janelas? Não é possível.

- I also do not accredit when she fails me! Take care that he was jumping; porém é negócio serio.

- So she bought this house? - E mandou prepare it. She is never mobilized and ready. She had to move-browse; I don't know what a disturbance I have. She signed up for a week!

- It's bem! São luxos de passar o verão no campo! Não lhe dou um more than she is not repented, and she did not return to her home in the city "

Or casal live out-of-the-way moments in Santa Teresa, Lúcia's long past. Or I wish to leave my previous life for so long that Lúcia left the palace that she was born in the city, das joias e das roupas de outrora.

Tudo runs na mais perfeita I ordered that a girl gravitated, destabilizing the relationship of the house. Because her body was her son, Lúcia is not worthy of carrying a baby.

O final da historia é tragic: a moça will die pregnant. Paulo, like bom homem that he is, fica responsible for the hair cared for by the cunhada Ana tied that she gets married.

Personagens centers

Lúcia (Maria da Glória)

Órfã, barely ten years old, Lúcia is a beautiful and inebriated woman with black hair, who enfeitiça all the homies to her volta. Lúcia was endowed with war by Maria da Glória when she decided to come back.

"The nine hours of the date or free, and minha mãe dizia:« Maria da Glória, teu pai quer cear ». She lifted me up to stop him.

- Maria da Glória!

- É meu nome. Foi Nossa Senhora, minha madrinha, quem mo deu. "

Paulo da Silva

Born in Pernambuco, or modest Paulo moved to Rio de Janeiro twenty and five years in search of professional success in the capital.

Ana

Irmã de Lúcia. After Lúcia died early, Ana was cared for by her brother, Paulo.

Sat

Melhor friend of Paulo, responsible for presenting Lúcia ao rapaz during the festa da Glória.

Literary context

Luciola is a typical exemplar of the romantic period. Passado no Rio de Janeiro, an urban romance that reveals the values ​​of the 19th century Brazilian society.

Narrated in first person, or what we see from the perspective of the protagonist Paulo. In the work of José de Alencar we find an idealized love that purifies the courtesy and the face of giving up devastating life. In order to determine an ideal level of idealization, we create the first time that Paulo sees Lúcia:

"No moment when it was passing or car before us, for sale or a soft and delicate profile that illuminated the dawn of a sorriso raiando just not cuddly lips, and a limpid front that in the shadow of two black hair shines from viço and youth, I could not conter of admiration. "

Leia o livro na integral

Or PDF of Luciola It is available for free download through the public domain.

Cinematographic adaptation of the romance by José de Alencar

Launched in 1975, Lucíola, or sinful anjo This is a film directed by Alfredo Sternheim. With 119 minutes of duration, or long metragem é based on José de Alencar's romance.

Not cast is Rossa Ghessa (playing Lucíola) and Carlo Mossy (playing Paulo). Confira or film an intact to follow:

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