Ressurreição

After many comings and goings, Felix ends up asking the widow to marry him, but he escapes on the eve of the marriage due to an anonymous letter with false accusations against Livia.

Thanks to the intervention of his friend Meneses, Félix regrets his thoughtless actions and tries to reconcile with her, but now it is Livia whom no longer wants to marry the immature and unstable doctor.

Besides the main couple, Machado de Assis brings to life a myriad of secondary characters, whose personalities and physical characteristics are carefully decomposed in the novel, a distinctive trait of his works.

The cartoon magazine O Mosquito said that the debut novelist could "serve as a model for some hollow spirits of common sense and grammar, who hear the cries of the few who still read them, with their invocations of the moon, the sun and the stars".

Carlos Ferreira wrote in Correio do Brasil that "The novel is not simple narrative, it is something that first speaks to the soul, and leaves in it an impression of profound truth about the thesis that it proposes to develop, and then acclaims it in praise: Such sweet turn of phrase and what softness of thought!".