Chronicle of the murdered house / Lúcio Cardoso ; biographical note by Benjamin Moser ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cardoso, Lúcio, 1913-1968, author.

Contributor:

Moser, Benjamin, 1976- writer of introduction.

Costa, Margaret Jull, translator.

Standardized Title:

Crônica de casa assassinada. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Families--Brazil--Minas Gerais--Fiction.

Families.

Gay men--Brazil--Minas Gerais--Fiction.

Gay men.

Brazil--Minas Gerais.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xx, 592 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2016.

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Cardoso, Lúcio, 1913-1968, author. Chronicle of the murdered house.

ISBN:

9781940953502

1940953502

OCLC:

945948824