Numa e a Ninfa
By Lima Barreto
Cover: Ladeira dos Tabajaras (1928), painting by Eliseu Visconti (1866–1944) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1944)
Numa Pompílio de Castro, a modest official, rises to be a deputy through a clever marriage to Edgarda, the daughter of a powerful politician, while the Chamber debates a proposal for a new state of the federation. Lima Barreto's satire of 1915 shows the republic's political machinery at work.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.