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Far from home, a Portuguese exile enters a society where love, money and ambition are closely entwined.
In Creole Love, Abel Acácio de Almeida Botelho follows a Portuguese exile among the people of Argentina’s River Plate. Through this newcomer’s eyes, a world of courtship, trade and social judgment comes into view. He must learn the habits of a place that is not his own, where appearances matter and ambition shapes daily life.
Love here is never only a private feeling. It is bound to money, rank, family pride and the wish to rise. Drawing on the Portuguese realist and naturalist tradition, Botelho looks closely at social habits and private passions. In this fast-growing country, the pursuit of status colours friendships and bargains, giving personal choices a wider social weight.
What you’ll discover
- A stranger’s searching eye See the River Plate through an exile learning how an unfamiliar society works.
- Love beyond private feeling Explore passions entangled with money, social rank and the demands of family pride.
- The hunger to rise Watch ambition colour friendships and bargains in a world where status can be won.
- A society of appearances Look closely at the habits through which people court, judge and present themselves.
- A clear outside view Discover how Botelho’s Portuguese perspective gives his portrait of Argentine life its edge.
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For readers who love nineteenth century realist fiction, stories of migration and exile, and portraits of South American society, with its private passions and social ambitions.
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- An exile sees a new society
- Passion drives the social world
- Ambition shapes the choices people make
- A Portuguese eye on the River Plate
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Amore creolo
by Abel Acácio de Almeida Botelho · 1913
A Portuguese exile enters Argentine society, where desire and social ambition shape the choices people make.
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Creole Love is a work by Abel Acácio de Almeida Botelho, a Portuguese writer, soldier and diplomat who died in 1917. He belongs to the Portuguese realist and naturalist tradition of the late nineteenth century, and he wrote fiction that looks closely at social habits and private passions.
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An exile sees a new society
Books of this kind begin with a stranger. A Portuguese man, far from home, must learn how a new country speaks, trades, courts and judges. The exile is a useful figure for a realist writer because he sees what locals no longer notice.
The setting is Argentina, a country that drew many Europeans in the nineteenth century. Its cities and its countryside gave writers a wide stage of old families, new money and mixed cultures.
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Who wrote Creole Love?
Creole Love was written by Abel Acácio de Almeida Botelho, a Portuguese novelist, army officer and diplomat who died in 1917. He is linked with the realist and naturalist movement in Portuguese fiction.
What kind of book is Creole Love?
It is a nineteenth century realist work of fiction. It looks at love, ambition and social life in Argentina through the eyes of a Portuguese exile.
What does creole mean in the title?
Creole in Latin American usage often refers to people of European descent born in the Americas, and by extension to local culture. In the title it points to the native society of Argentina.
The author
Abel Acácio de Almeida Botelho
1854–1917 · Portuguese novelist and diplomat
Portuguese writer and diplomat.
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