A Cidade do Vício
By Fialho de Almeida
Cover: Os Bêbados (1907), painting by José Malhoa (1855–1933) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1933)
Fialho de Almeida's first great collection of tales opens with a prelude, the Symphonia de Abertura, and follows with twelve vivid stories of country and city, among them Os Novilhos, O Roubo, A Camisa and Madona do Campo Santo. His prose is dense, sensuous and unsparing, and was a landmark of Portuguese naturalism.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.