| Author |
Cardoso, Lúcio, 1913-1968.
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| Publication |
Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2016.
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| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
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eBOOK |
| Summary |
""The book itself is strange-part Faulknerian meditation on the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and evil and God-but in its strangeness lies its rare power, and in the sincerity and seriousness with which the essential questions are posed lies its greatness."--Benjamin Moser, from the introduction. Long considered one of the most important works of twentieth-century Brazilian literature, Chronicle of the Murdered House is finally available in English. Set in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the novel relates the dissolution of a once proud patriarchal family now represented by Timoteo, a gay scion who wanders the ancestral mansion dressed in his mother's clothes. This downfall, peppered by stories of decadence, adultery, incest, and madness, is related through a variety of narrative devices, including letters, diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions, and accounts penned by the various characters. Lúcio Cardoso (1912-1968) turned away from the social realism fashionable in 1930s Brazil and opened the doors of Brazilian literature to introspective works such as those of Clarice Lispector-his greatest follower and admirer."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Subject |
Families -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- Fiction.
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Gay men -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Literary.
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FICTION / Classics.
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FICTION / Gay.
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HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
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Brazil -- Minas Gerais. (OCoLC)fst01207403 |
| Genre |
Psychological fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
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Electronic books. |
| Addl. Author |
Moser, Benjamin.
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Costa, Margaret Jull.
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OverDrive, Inc.
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| Addl. Title |
Crônica de casa assassinada. English
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| Related To |
Print version: Cardoso, Lúcio, 1913-1968, author. Chronicle of the murdered house Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2016 9781940953502 (DLC) 2016020063 |
| ISBN |
9781940953519 (electronic bk.) |
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1940953510 (electronic bk.) |
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