RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 A volta da casa na literatura brasileira contemporânea JF Luso-Brazilian Review JO Luso-Braz Rev FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 119 OP 130 DO 10.3368/lbr.43.2.119 VO 43 IS 2 A1 Denílson Lopes YR 2006 UL http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/43/2/119.abstract AB This essay is a journey through the image of the house in Brazilian contemporary literature, in the search of a poetics of the ordinary and delicateness. The analysis of Buriti by Guimarães Rosa, Sinfonia em Branco by Adriana Lisboa and Cinco Estações do Amor by João Almino suggests this alternative poetics both from the representation of the house as the decaying and painful space of the rural aristocracy or as marked by an aesthetization of violence and cruelty in the cities.