Chronicle Of The Murdered House

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781940953502
  • 29 december 2016
  • 592 pagina's
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Winner of the 2017 Best Translated Book Award

Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award

"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 that blames its ruin on the marriage of its youngest son, Valdo, to Nina—a vibrant, unpredictable, and incendiary young woman whose very existence seems to depend on the destruction of the household. This family's 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.

Margaret Jull Costa has translated dozens of works from both Spanish and Portuguese, including books by Javier Marías and José Saramago. Her translations have received numerous awards, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 2014 she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Robin Patterson was mentored by Margaret Jull Costa, and has translated Our Musseque by José Luandino Vieira.


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en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
29 december 2016
Aantal pagina's
592
Illustraties
Nee

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Hoofdauteur
Lucio Cardoso
Tweede Auteur
Laucio Cardoso
Hoofduitgeverij
Open Letter

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler
Margaret Jull Costa
Tweede Vertaler
Robin Patterson
Co Vertaler(s)
Margaret Jull Costa

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Nee
Product breedte
140 mm
Product hoogte
44 mm
Product lengte
216 mm
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Verpakking breedte
140 mm
Verpakking hoogte
36 mm
Verpakking lengte
214 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
898 g

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9781940953502

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