Midnight Mass (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- First Published: 1894
- Type of Plot: Sketch
- Time of Work: The early 1860's
- Setting: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Principal Characters: Mr. Nogueira, Conceição
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, Adultery, Brazil or Brazilians, Catholics or Catholic Church, South America or South Americans, Christmas
- Locales: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Story
The narrator, Mr. Nogueira, is of indeterminate age as he tells his tale, but he was a young man of seventeen when the events occurred. A country boy from Mangaratiba, he has come to Rio de Janeiro to stay with Mr. Menezes, a notary whose first wife was Nogueira's cousin, in order to prepare for his college entrance examinations. The Menezes household is composed of the notary, his wife, Madame Conceição, her mother, Madame Ignacia, and two female slaves. Nogueira spends some months living quietly with the family, which he refers to as old-fashioned. The only...
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