Reliquias de Casa Velha
By Machado de Assis
Cover: A Família do Artista (1918), painting by Eliseu Visconti (1866–1944) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1944)
Machado de Assis's last collection, from 1906, gathering late stories along with two short comedies and some critical pages. Among the stories is Pai contra Mãe, about a slave catcher in Rio de Janeiro.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.