Outsider Women and Artistic Continuity from A Mulher de Longe to the Chronicle of the Murdered House

Abstract

This article proposes a brief comparison between Lucio Cardoso’s masterpiece Chronicle of the Murdered House (1959), and his main script A Mulher de Longe (1949). The main characters in both works are outsider women, who, in the clash between tradition and an attempt to openness, are the most tortured ones, often haunted by the women themselves, who rely too much on the prejudices and conventions established by a traditional and patriarchal society – in decay –, as in the case of Nina and Ana, in the first work, and of the woman and the old lady, in the second one. The question that is supposed is that the Chronicle of the murdered house could be a literary continuity of the script attempt that was A Mulher de Longe, carried out ten years later.