A Pair of Arms E-Book

Machado de Assis

• Herausgeber: SAMPI Books
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 17

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

In "A Pair of Arms", Machado de Assis tells the story of Inácio, a young seminarian who stays at the home of a couple who are friends of the family. There, he begins to spend time with Mrs. Severina, the host's beautiful wife, and ends up being overcome by a silent and forbidden passion, completely fascinated by her arms. The story explores the awakening of desire, moral conflict, and the tension between innocence and sin.

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A Pair of Arms

Machado de Assis

SYNOPSIS

In “A Pair of Arms”, Machado de Assis tells the story of Inácio, a young seminarian who stays at the home of a couple who are friends of the family. There, he begins to spend time with Mrs. Severina, the host's beautiful wife, and ends up being overcome by a silent and forbidden passion, completely fascinated by her arms. The story explores the awakening of desire, moral conflict, and the tension between innocence and sin.

Keywords

Forbidden passion, Desire, Morality

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A Pair of Arms

Inácio shuddered as he heard the solicitor's shouts, took the plate he was handed, and tried to eat amid a barrage of names: rascal, airhead, stupid, crazy.

"Where are you that you never hear what I say? I'll tell your father everything, so he can shake the laziness out of your body with a good quince switch or a stick; yes, you can still be beaten, don't think otherwise. Stupid! Crazy!

“Look, outside it's just like what you see here,” he continued, turning to Mrs. Severina, the woman who had been living with him as his wife for years. "He mixes up all my papers, gets the wrong houses, goes to one clerk instead of another, changes lawyers: he's the devil! It's that heavy, continuous sleep. In the morning, it's what you see; before he wakes up, you have to break his bones... Leave it; tomorrow I'll wake him up with a broomstick!