02777nam 2200493 450 991013663990332120230808195921.01-940953-51-0(CKB)3710000000892485(PQKBManifestationID)16466762(PQKBWorkID)15009810(PQKB)22428955(MiAaPQ)EBC4604716(EXLCZ)99371000000089248520160511d2016 uy| 1engurcnu||||||||txtccrChronicle of the murdered house /Lúcio Cardoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; biographical note by Benjamin MoserFirst edition.Rochester, NY :Open Letter,2016.1 online resource (625 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-940953-50-2 "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.FamiliesBrazilMinas GeraisFictionGay menBrazilMinas GeraisFictionFamiliesGay men869.3/42FIC019000FIC004000FIC011000HIS033000bisacshCardoso Lúcio1913-1968,174319Moser BenjaminCosta Margaret JullPatterson RobinMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910136639903321Chronicle of the murdered house2892641UNINA