A Capital Federal
By Coelho Netto
Cover: Avenida Central (1908), painting by Eliseu Visconti (1866–1944) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1944)
A countryman from the Brazilian backlands travels to the capital, Rio de Janeiro, and writes down his impressions. Coelho Netto's comic novel uses the outsider's eye on the city's new fashions, politics and noise in the years after the Republic.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.