Project Gutenberg 2012-05-05 Public domain in the USA. 118 Brandão, Raul 1867 1930 Brandão, Raúl Brandao, Raul Germano Brandão, Raul Germano Humus Produced by Ricardo F. Diogo, Rita Farinha and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Humus" by Raul Brandão is a novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative presents a richly detailed depiction of life in a dilapidated villa, exploring themes of monotony, death, and the human condition. The characters are mainly the inhabitants of this villa, who embody various facets of stagnation and despair while wrestling with the push and pull of life and death. At the start of the story, the reader is introduced to the atmospheric environment of the villa, characterized by decay and silence. The narrator reflects on the life of its inhabitants, depicting their routines as repetitive and void of vitality. This opening segment vividly portrays the intersection of human hopes and disillusionment, suggesting that beneath the surface of mundane existence lies a deeper yearning for meaning and escape. Through haunting imagery and poignant observations, the narrative sets the stage for an exploration of the contrast between insipid daily life and the profound, often neglected, emotional undercurrents that shape the characters’ realities. (This is an automatically generated summary.) pt Portuguese literature PQ Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature 392180 392188 2024-09-16T15:14:11.924249 2023-09-17T09:36:10.514836 text/html text/html 389568 2012-05-04T19:52:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 454474 2012-05-04T19:52:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 506403 2024-09-16T15:14:22.879219 application/epub+zip 513395 2024-09-16T15:14:15.443288 application/epub+zip 198772 2024-09-16T15:14:13.178268 application/epub+zip 709488 2024-09-16T15:14:26.759184 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 681680 2024-09-16T15:14:20.127262 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306283 2022-09-18T07:17:30.054279 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 354261 354159 2024-09-16T15:14:10.931260 2023-09-17T09:36:09.790846 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 347288 2012-05-04T19:52:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 133395 2012-05-04T19:52:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 18390 2024-09-16T15:14:26.897180 application/rdf+xml 9216 2024-09-16T15:14:13.558236 image/jpeg 2550 2024-09-16T15:14:13.365264 image/jpeg 496769 2024-09-16T15:14:11.971262 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog pt.wikipedia en.wikipedia