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PARATY, RJ (FOLHAPRESS) – The table that met the writer Rio Geovani Martins and Colson Whitehead, in the afternoon of Saturday (28) at Flip, had a question set by the mediator, Pedro Meira Monteiro, as "provocative".
In a staged article, someone from the public, who was not identified, asked Geovani Martins if his literature would attract attention and would be furious if he did not. Was not the biography that he has Martins, who published the book "The sun in the head" (Companhia das Letras) in March, comes from a poor family, only studied until 39; in the seventh year and is One of the revelations of Brazilian literature this year
The carioca writer Geovani Martins at the launch of his first book, "The Sun in the Head" Reinaldo Canato / Folhapress After an embarrbaded silence of the public, the writer reveals in the workshops of the Peripheral Literary Festival, answered concisely:
"Who can answer this question are the readers, is not it? My job is the same … If you arrive in one way or another … "
Meira Monteiro based on The work of both authors, but for the most part Whitehead, for example, showed no sign of getting into the badyzes.
The discussion advanced as the conversation turned to political issues. The mediator noted, for example, that in Martins' work there are almost no fathers and that mothers are more present.
"Every mother is worried about the lives of her children, but these mothers are afraid to interrupt their lives. It's a mother who is afraid of losing her son from 12 to 15 years old to bury one child and then bury another. "
The author recounted, for example, that his mother had begun to pay him a funeral plan and" When the character of my tale "Rolézim" is there [achando que vai morrer] the first thing he thinks about is n & rsquo; Is not even to cease to exist, but [se preocupa por] leaving the mother without another child. "
Both authors also commented that they did not like describing the color of their characters, although from the context it is possible to know that they are black. is black or white If Hemingway writes "The server gave me a drink" [e não diz a cor] you already know – blacks are racialized, while whites are just people, "says Whitehead.
Martins says that when he started reading authors like Jorge Amado, still young, he realized that the color of each character "
" I would say, "When I write a book, I will only describe the whites, "he says, drawing laughter from the audience. "I realized the power that this entailed, in order to reveal situations to which the population is exposed and vulnerable."
Questioned, Whitehead said that he could not compare, on the racial issue, Brazil that he visited in the 1990s and what he knows
"When I Was here, I was arrested twice by the police, which gave me an idea [do racismo no país] But this festival is a bubble of education and kindness, I can not not to say if Brazil has changed. "
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