The Slum

The Brazilian novelist Aluísio Azevedo (1857-1913) was also the author of A Woman's Tear, The Mulatto, and several other works. The late David H. Rosenthal was an accomplished translator of works from the Catalan (from 15th-century classics to modern poetry) and also wrote essays and books on many other topics, including Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965 (OUP, 1992).

Previous praise for the Library of Latin America series:"Language has always been a barrier to our unity as the Americas, and most especially to our reading of each other's literatures. Now with this new series by Oxford University Press, the library of Latin America is literally open to North Americans and to English speakers everywhere. This is an important series for anyone who is prevented from knowing the classics of the southern half of this hemisphere because of not knowing the language. !Bienvenidos tothese new readers!"--Julia Alvarez"Azevedo had trained to be an artist, and his strong eye shows in his prose....[He] traveled with his sketchbook to Rio's slums, returning home to render the visual into words. The Slum is the sort of novel Tom Wolfe ordered his colleages to write, a Great American Novel with great American themes, notably greed and race....Brazil still has slums and races...this reality, along with Azevedo's descriptive brilliance, serpentine plotting, comedy and theample helpings of sex and violence, explains why Brazilians still read The Slum."--The New York Times Book ReviewPrevious praise for the Library of Latin America series"Language has always been a barrier to our unity as the Americas, and most especially to our reading of each other's literatures. Now with this new series by Oxford University Press, the library of Latin America is literally open to North Americans and to English speakers everywhere. This is an important series for anyone who is prevented from knowing the classics of the southern half of this hemisphere because of not knowing the language. !Bienvenidos tothese new readers!"--Julia Alvarez"With the Library of Latin America, Oxford has opened up a new frontier that may prove as exciting and enigmatic as the continent itself."--The Herald (South Carolina)"The most significant publishing event in Latin American literature in this country since the Boom of the 1960s."--The Wall Street Journal