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But always at the front of his mind was the sexual act. So she had no remorse in leaving him to make his own way in the world…. Meanwhile, Captain Bandeira had become so ashamed of his son that he cut him loose, and thereafter they hardly saw each other. So that was his business, the cocks and the cock-pits.
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He used to bargain with them, sell them, breed them and bet on them. And that, together with the odd coins his mother gave him, was how he made enough money to keep the shirt on his back. He was the epitome of those domestic vagabonds who can be found in their thousands in the suburbs and districts of Rio de Janeiro. Thus it was that she found out about Clara and gave him a stern dressing-down on that account. Her son listened respectfully in silence; but he thought it sensible to write to his girlfriend and explain, as best he could, what had happened.
This is what he wrote:. My deer lital girl, I hav to tel you that wen I risseeved yor leter my muther saw it an I maid the big misteak ov confessin evrithin to muther that I luv you an wud do enythin for you but they ar all agenst me witch is the reeson I am telin you not to tek eny notis ov enythin they sey an to fink ov how mutch I am sufrin.
Fink abaut it and tel me wever you ar priperd to do what I woz askin you in my last leter. Lots an lots ov luv from this por boy hu adors you so mutch wiv uncorispondid luv.
From Portuguese: Clara dos Anjos, by Lima Barreto - A ŚORT SPEL
And not only that: Tears, palpitations, vague anxieties, even vaguer hopes, fantasies of beautiful, unknown horizons — the letter brought her all of that, not to mention the halo of love and dedication which her imagination draped around the balladeer and his ballads. A few days later she fulfilled her promise, i. And she did the same thing on several of the following nights, but he never stayed for long. On Sundays he turned up in the house as usual, sang his ballads and acted as if nothing had happened. One day, Clara felt something strange in her belly.
It was nothing, he said. But it was something: He calmed her, He promised to marry her. And her belly grew and grew…. The balladeer started coming less often, until he stopped coming altogether.
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The girl could no longer deny it: But Clara had an idea. So Clara put her coat on hurriedly, and off she went.
But Clara summoned up all her courage and, with admirable sangfroid, confessed everything — her error and her shame. Who do you think you are? Be off with you! Clara left without saying a word and, as she walked back along the road, she fought back her tears so that no-one should see her shame. What was she to think? She could see clearly now what her position was in society: They were useless and counter-productive, because they prevented her from seeing clearly how low was her position and how little she should expect…. She returned home quickly.
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She went to see her mother. Her mother wept too. The following biographical details have been translated from the [now defunct] Casa Lima Barreto website. The son of a typographer at the National Printing Works and of a state-school teacher, he was of mixed race. He was taught at first by his own mother, who died when he was seven. Through the influence of his godfather, Viscount Ouro Preto, an imperial minister, he completed his studies at the Pedro II National School, from where he went, in , to the Polytechnic with the intention of studying to be an engineer.
He had to give up his course, however, in order to become the breadwinner at home, after his father — bursar at the Colony for the Insane on Governador Island — himself became mentally ill in In the same year he had his first work published in the student press. The family moved to the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Engenho de Dentro, where the future writer decided to take part in a public examination for a vacancy in the Ministry of War.
He came second but, because the first-placed candidate withdrew, he was able to take up the post, which he did in Because his salary was only small, the family moved to a modest house in the suburb of Todos os Santos in which, in , he began the first version of his novel Clara dos Anjos Clara of the Angels. During this period he devoted himself to reading, in the National Library, the great names of world literature, including the European realist writers of the period; he was one of the few Brazilian writers who became familiar with the works of the Russian novelists.
In he published two instalments of the Aventuras do Dr. Bogoloff The Adventures of Dr. Bogoloff , in addition to little humorous books, one of them printed in the O Riso magazine. Although alcoholism was beginning take hold of him, it did not prevent him from continuing to work for the press and, in , he commenced a series of daily feuilletons in the Correio da Noite. In the A Noite newspaper published his novel Numa e a ninfa Numa and the Nymph in instalments, and he began a long phase of work with the Careta magazine, writing political articles on various topics.
He began writing for the political weekly A. After being hospitalised in July , he delivered to his editor, J. He applied for a vacancy in the Brazilian Academy of Letters, but his application was not even considered. He started publishing articles and feuilletons in the alternative press of the period: A Lanterna , A. After being diagnosed with toxic epilepsy, he was pensioned off in December and he moved to another house in the Rua Major Mascarenhas in Todos os Santos, where he lived until his death.
At the beginning of he ceased his collaboration with the A. He published the novel Vida e morte de M. Schettino; the manuscript was lost, however, and the book did not come to be published until With his health badly undermined, he turned into a sort of recluse in his little house in Todos os Santos, where friends came to visit him and where his sister Evangelina looked after him devotedly.
However, Bagatelas was not published until In December he began work on the second version of his novel Clara dos Anjos , which he finished the following January. His health was declining steadily as a result of rheumatism and alcoholism amongst other things, and Lima suffered heart failure and died on 1 November They found him holding the copy of the Revue des Deux Mondes — his favourite journal — which he had just been reading. Two days later, his father died. In a publisher issued some volumes of his unpublished works.
In the following decades Lima has been the subject of many studies, both in Brazil and abroad. His works, particularly his novels and short stories, have been translated into English, French, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Japanese and German. He has been the subject of doctoral theses in the United States and Germany. To mark the centenary of his birth in , conferences were held about him throughout Brazil, resulting in the publication of innumerable books, including essays, bibliographies and psychological studies of the author and his works.