A decadência da casa, a sombra da morte e o cair das máscaras Meneses: 2011

Abstract

This work, entitled: The decline of the house, the shade of the death and the fall of the Meneses masks, aims to analyze the relation between the finance decline and the ethical and moral degradation of the Meneses family, the main characters of the novel: Crônica da casa assassinada (1959), written by Lúcio Cardoso. The main points analyzed are: the importance of space as a category in the narrative construction, the tragic female condition, the disease and death of the character Nina, the relation between the cancer, which destroys her, the fall of the house and the ethical and moral ruin of the family. The tragedy of the Meneses family is a result of their inability of adaptation to their historical time, wath implicates in their decline. Inside of this decadent familiar context we have the female characters, united by ties of envy, hatred, pity and death. Gilberto Freyre (2000), Rita Felix Fortes (2010), Simone de Beauvoir (1980), Phillipe Áries (2003), José Carlos Rodrigues (1993), and other s principles will be used to base this analysis.