Gloomy Slope

• Company: Pergunta Fixar

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This is how, in Canto II, Verse 40 of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Dante adjective the hill through which he must climb to leave Hell. In this urban novel, likewise Dante, the character-writer Antônio Martim, in the skin of Ângelo, 23, is thrown to the hell of the streets and must overcome obstacles of degradation and infamy to return to society, where his Beatrice is waiting for him. On its gloomy slope, Ângelo finds Pernambuco, Maria Quanta, Casquinha, Torrado and Santinha, a family of wanderers who live on the street in an infested destination and in misery. Together, they visit streets and hostels in various cities in the countryside of São Paulo, and Ângelo finds, in indigent companionship, enormous pleasure in the miserable life of the homeless wanderer. Social exclusion satisfies and frightens him. The streets draw him like a spell. This novel was written by Creso Balduíno.