The house of Morro Branco

Name: The house of Morro Branco
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Autor: Rachel de Queiroz

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Sinopse

Rachel de Queiroz established herself as one of the great names in Brazilian long fiction with the publication of her novel "O Quinze" in 1930. The anthology of short stories, "A Casa do Morro Branco," however, proves that the author also perfectly mastered the art of short stories and chronicles. Featuring 14 stories, the author showcases all the characteristics that characterized renowned works such as "João Miguel," "Caminho de Pedras," "As Três Marias," and "Memorial de Maria Moura": literary analyses of human existence, in its political and personal aspects. This reissue continues Editora José Olympio's revival of the work of Rachel and other authors. "I only know the place by sight. As I said, there's a hill; not a big, tall hill, the kind that looks more like real mountains—and, come to think of it, they really are mountains," writes the author in the chronicle that gives the book its title. "The one there used to be a hill, or what we in the Northeast call a 'high' or 'head.' But it stuck as a hill, so much so that the farm was known as 'White Hill'—the white being due to the limestone carved into the paths, which, seen from afar, could give the illusion of snow. The whitewashed house, surrounded by porches, is so old that some people claim it dates back to the Anhangüera. In that land, everything old is immediately attributed to the Anhangüera; and so, in the case of Morro Branco, since the Anhangüera was called the devil and the house has a reputation for being haunted, they lumped one thing together." Journalist and writer José Nêumanne states that "short-story writer Rachel de Queiroz is as blunt as anything, subtle and cutting as the edge of a knife used to chop tobacco in the open-air markets of Ceará's countryside. She describes life without disguise, without sugarcoating it, with the impressive coldness of a professional assassin. (...) The novelist's short prose is straightforward and raw, without subterfuge or prevarication: adjectives are dispensed without ceremony, giving way to the strength of common nouns, strung together with wit and sensitivity."

ISBN	978-850-300-857-0
Tradutor
Altura	210 mm
Largura	140 mm
Profundidade	8 mm
Lançamento	22/01/2008
Páginas	144

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Sobre o autor

Rachel de Queiroz

Marques Rebelo, pseudônimo de Edi Dias da Cruz, foi jornalista, poeta, contista, romancista e cronista. Nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, em 6 de janeiro de 1907. Sua infância dividiu-se entre o bairro de Vila Isabel e a cidade mineira de Barbacena, para onde se mudou com a família aos 4 anos. Nunca lhe faltaram, no Rio ou em Minas, um terreno baldio para jogar futebol e livros para ler. No início dos anos 1920, ingressou na Faculdade de Medicina, que logo abandonou para se dedicar ao comércio em Minas Gerais, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. Ainda na década de 20, começou a escrever profissionalmente, no jornalismo. Marques Rebelo foi o romancista do Rio de Janeiro, herdeiro do amor pela cidade de Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Machado de Assis e Lima Barreto. Suas obras retratam as transformações dos anos de 1930 a 1960, a vida noturna, a boemia e a sensualidade, uma deliciosa crônica das ruas, dos bondes, da pequena burguesia. Em 1964 foi eleito para a Academia Brasileira de Letras. Marques Rebelo faleceu a 26 de agosto de 1973, no Rio de Janeiro, que tanto amou.

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