Clavis Libri

Theme

Nature and Civilization

The axis between the natural and the constructed: nature, the savage, countryside and city, civilization and barbarism, man before nature.

The Slum

Aluísio Azevedo

the tenement born from the mud (chapter I), the animal joy of existing (chapter III), the exile and the land that takes him in (chapter V, chapter VII), Jerônimo made Brazilian (chapter IX) and the procuring nature Piedade complains of (chapter XVI).