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adulterous affair with
Alberto, one of the servants who witness the events. From their relationship, André is born. André opens the book in a cyclic key: He is the character who retells Nina's death, so the story starts from the end of the chronology. The novel's plot and form are organized around the
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points out that the novel's theme is linked to religious and spiritualist issues, immersed in the formal freedom conquered by the vanguards in a “descent into the hell of anguish and guilt.” However, a difficulty persists in characterizing it in one of the currents of the
Brazilian novel. The complex
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The novel is also considered a transition from the modern to the postmodern society, since "the story narrated in the novel is distinguished by the decline of traditional values and by the consequent rise of anarchic proposals that justify the nihilism of contemporary society." In a non-linear way,
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A decaying farmhouse in a provincial town in Minas Gerais is at the core of the action and becomes a major character. The plot is punctuated by sin, death and illness, and it shows the result of the presence of three brothers (Demétrio, Valdo and Timóteo) and two wives (Ana and Nina). Nina is a
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and is unable to adapt to rural, peasant life. She marries Valdo for his wealth, but soon discovers the decay of the
Meneses family. As one of the main protagonists of the work, she is a destructive element of the family order and causes envy and disaffection in the family circle. She has an
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the novel describes the decadence and fragmentation of a traditional bourgeois
Brazilian family in a multilayered narrative which includes the voices of members of the Meneses family and of the inhabitants of Vila Velha, the town where they live.
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The reader is faced with the narrative unfolded between psychological turbulence and the portrait of a decaying social order. Or between the production of “spectral portraits of being”, as suggested by the poet
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The story is told through letters, diary pages, and memories, and reveals elements of jealousy, grudges and taboo themes. It takes place in an old farm in the interior of
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combination of literary characteristics does not allow reducing it to the idea of an “introspective novel” or to the trends developed by the critics mentioned above.
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in a tribute poem to
Cardoso ("A Lúcio Cardoso, na casa de saúde" ), and the exhibition of the “moral metastasis of the Meneses farm”, in the words of the critic
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Portella, Eduardo. A linguagem prometida. In: Cardoso, Lúcio; Carelli, Mario (ed.).
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Crônicas da Casa
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Carelli, Mario. A recepção crítica. In: Cardoso, Lúcio; Carelli, Mario (ed.).
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Carelli, Mario. A música do sangue. In: Cardoso, Lúcio; Carelli, Mario (ed.).
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