LEADER 02777nam 2200493 450 001 9910136639903321 005 20230808195921.0 010 $a1-940953-51-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000892485 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16466762 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15009810 035 $a(PQKB)22428955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4604716 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000892485 100 $a20160511d2016 uy| 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChronicle of the murdered house /$fLu?cio Cardoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; biographical note by Benjamin Moser 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aRochester, NY :$cOpen Letter,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (625 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-940953-50-2 330 $a"The book itself is strange-part Faulknerian meditation on the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and evil and God-but in its strangeness lies its rare power, and in the sincerity and seriousness with which the essential questions are posed lies its greatness."--Benjamin Moser, from the introduction. Long considered one of the most important works of twentieth-century Brazilian literature, Chronicle of the Murdered House is finally available in English. Set in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the novel relates the dissolution of a once proud patriarchal family now represented by Timoteo, a gay scion who wanders the ancestral mansion dressed in his mother's clothes. This downfall, peppered by stories of decadence, adultery, incest, and madness, is related through a variety of narrative devices, including letters, diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions, and accounts penned by the various characters. Lu?cio Cardoso (1912-1968) turned away from the social realism fashionable in 1930s Brazil and opened the doors of Brazilian literature to introspective works such as those of Clarice Lispector-his greatest follower and admirer."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aFamilies$zBrazil$zMinas Gerais$vFiction 606 $aGay men$zBrazil$zMinas Gerais$vFiction 615 0$aFamilies 615 0$aGay men 676 $a869.3/42 686 $aFIC019000$aFIC004000$aFIC011000$aHIS033000$2bisacsh 700 $aCardoso$b Lu?cio$f1913-1968,$0174319 702 $aMoser$b Benjamin 702 $aCosta$b Margaret Jull 702 $aPatterson$b Robin 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136639903321 996 $aChronicle of the murdered house$92892641 997 $aUNINA