Slave Isaura
(Bernardo de Guimarães)
The book concerns Isaura, a slave who
was born almost white and is treated as a daughter by her mistress,
subject of lust and passion for Henrique (fleetingly), Leôncio
(evil, controlling and opulent), Belchior (ridiculous, servile and
confused) and Álvaro (pure and lovingly). Other feelings
directed at Isaura include the envy of Rosa (another slave, cast off
by Leôncio as a lover) and the fondness of her father Miguel.
It starts with the past of her mother, maltreated by her owner, the
father of Leôncio, who has her by a good-hearted ex-foreman.
When she is about to be given her freedom this owner dies and Leôncio
inherits her, without any intention of freeing her. His wife leaves
and he orders Isaura into captivity. From there she and her father
escape to Recife where she gets to know Álvaro and falls in
love with him. She goes to a high-society dance and is very much
admired for her physical and cultural endowments, but is denounced as
a slave by the greedy Martinho. On return from Rio she is imprisoned
for two months and her father is put in chains. About to achieve
freedom through marrying the deformed Belchior, thinking that Álvaro
is married, the marriage is prevented by the liquidation of the
bankrupt Leôncio, who kills himself to escape humiliation. The
story has been adapted several times for other media, the most
celebrated being the soap opera with Lucélia Santos in the
title rôle.
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