himself wrote. In this case, the "Samoiedas' school" is an allegory to the Brazilian classical writing style, which was still heavily influenced by the Parnassianism and Symbolism. Clara dos Anjos This posthumous novel presents the character Clara dos Anjos, a girl from a poor family that lives in the suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The story is about Clara's passion for Cassi Jones, an unscrupulous boy and son of a richer family. Cassi, who has made an uncountable number of women pregnant and abandoned them all, seduces Clara for his libidinous purposes. Clara, who is innocent due her parents' severe protectionism, ends up pregnant. At the end, Cassi flees and Clara finds herself abandoned and "dishonored". In his book, Barreto intends to show how disgraced is the destiny of poor women in Brazil, as he demonstrates in Clara's last quote: "We are nothing in this life". More than that, however, the author also shows the hypocrisy of rich people (mainly represented by Cassi's mother, who constantly protects her son) and the absurd selfishness of the Brazilian youth (represented by the character Cassi Jones). Other works O Subterrâneo do Morro do Castelo (1905) Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha (1909) O Homem que Sabia Javanês e outros contos (1911) Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá (1919) Cemitério dos Vivos (1920) Histórias e Sonhos (1920) Outras Histórias e Contos Argelinos (1952, posthumous) Coisas do Reino de Jambom (1953, posthumous) Sátiras e outras subversões: textos inéditos (2016, posthumous, edited by Felipe Botelho Corrêa) References Citations Bibliography Further reading BARRETO, Lima, Prosa seleta. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Aguilar, 2001. BARRETO, Lima, Um longo sonho do futuro: Rio de Janeiro, Graphia, 1993. CORREA, Felipe Botelho. Lima Barreto's Marginália: The Magazine Writer's Dream. In Machado Assis em Linha vol.7 no.14. Rio de Janeiro June/Dec. 2014 (English) CORREA, Felipe Botelho. Introdução. In Sátiras e outras subversões: textos inéditos. São Paulo: Penguin-Companhia das Letras, 2016. PRADO, Antonio Arnoni. Lima Barreto: o crítico e a crise. Rio de Janeiro: Cátedra, 1976. External links Ephéméride Anarchiste (in French) Lima Barreto's works (in the Portuguese Wikisource): Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha; Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma; Os Bruzundangas; Clara dos Anjos; O Cemitério dos Vivos. Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian journalists Brazilian male novelists Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city) 1881 births 1922 deaths 20th-century Brazilian novelists 20th-century Brazilian male writers 20th-century journalists