Sonhos d'ouro

Sonhos d'ouro is a novel written by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar. It was first published in 1872.

Together with Diva (1864) and Senhora (1875), it is considered one of Alencar's urban novels, which are set in Rio de Janeiro and deal with contemporary issues and the relationship between money and morality.[1][2]

The novel's protagonist is Ricardo, a fatherless man of 28, who leaves his mother and fiancée in São Paulo, to try to make his way in the young city of Rio de Janeiro.[3]

References

  1. ^ Schwarz, Roberto (2001). A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Machado de Assis. Duke University Press. p. 179. ISBN 9780822380801.
  2. ^ Ramicelli, Maria Eulália (2020). "The Construction of Pseudo-Modern Individuals in Senhora by José de Alencar". In da Silva, Ana Cláudia Suriani; Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini Teixeira (eds.). Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel. UCL Press. p. 200. ISBN 9781787354715.
  3. ^ Zephyr, Frank (2016). Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804797306.


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