Chronicle of the murdered house
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This never-before-translated classic of Brazilian, and gay, literature is a Faulknerian saga depicting the unraveling of a traditional patriarchal family.
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9781940953502
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|---|---|
| full_title | chronicle of the murdered house |
| author | cardoso lúcio |
| grouping_category | book |
| lastUpdate | 2017-09-14 04:57:27AM |
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| accelerated_reader_reading_level | 0 |
| auth_author2 | Costa, Margaret Jull,, Moser, Benjamin,, Patterson, Robin, |
| author | Cardoso, Lúcio, 1913-1968, |
| author-letter | Cardoso, Lúcio, |
| author2 | Costa, Margaret Jull,, Moser, Benjamin,, Patterson, Robin, |
| author2-role | Costa, Margaret Jull,translator., Moser, Benjamin,writer of introduction., Patterson, Robin,translator. |
| author_additional | Lúcio Cardoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; biographical note by Benjamin Moser. |
| author_display | Cardoso, Lúcio |
| availability_toggle_arlington | Available Now, Entire Collection |
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| collection_arlington | New Fiction |
| date_added | 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z |
| days_since_added | 20 |
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| display_description | ""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."-- |
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| local_time_since_added_arlington | 2 Months, Month, Quarter, Six Months, Year |
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| oclc | (OCoLC)945948824 |
| owning_library_arlington | Arlington Public Library, Aurora Hills, Central, Cherrydale, Columbia Pike, Connection Crystal City, Detention Center, Glencarlyn, Local History, Plaza, Shirlington, Westover |
| owning_location_arlington | Central |
| physical | xx, 592 pages ; 22 cm. |
| popularity | 1 |
| primary_isbn | 9781940953502 |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publishDateSort | 2016 |
| publisher | Open Letter, |
| rating | 2.5 |
| rating_facet | oneStar, twoStar |
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| subject_facet | Families -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- Fiction, Gay men -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- Fiction |
| target_audience | Adult |
| target_audience_full | Adult |
| time_since_added | 2 Months, Month, Quarter, Six Months, Year |
| title | Chronicle of the murdered house |
| title_alt | Crônica de casa assassinada. |
| title_display | Chronicle of the murdered house |
| title_full | Chronicle of the murdered house / Lúcio Cardoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ; biographical note by Benjamin Moser |
| title_short | Chronicle of the murdered house |
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| translation | Portuguese |
