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Chronicle of the murdered house
- Title
- Chronicle of the murdered house / Lúcio Cardoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; biographical note by Benjamin Moser.
- Author
- Cardoso, Lúcio, 1913-1968
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2016.
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-926 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xx, 592 pages; 22 cm
- 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."--
- Uniform Title
- Crônica de casa assassinada. English
- Alternative Title
- Crônica de casa assassinada.
- Subjects
- Families > Brazil > Minas Gerais > Fiction
- Gay men > Brazil > Minas Gerais > Fiction
- Call Number
- JFD 17-926
- ISBN
- 9781940953502
- 1940953502
- LCCN
- 2016020063
- 40026721048
- OCLC
- 945948824
- Author
- Cardoso, Lúcio, 1913-1968, author.
- Title
- Chronicle of the murdered house / Lúcio Cardoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; biographical note by Benjamin Moser.
- Publisher
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Costa, Margaret Jull, translator.Patterson, Robin, translator.Moser, Benjamin, writer of introduction.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Cardoso, Lúcio, 1913-1968, author. Chronicle of the murdered house. Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2016 9781940953519
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40026721048
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-926