Lúcio Cardoso
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 592 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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,...