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The one who heard the laughter of the audience at the table of the Paraty International Literary Festival (Flip), which reunited the Portuguese Isabela Figueiredo and the Brazilian Juliano Garcia Pessanha, has almost forgotten that their literature is deeply marked by suffering [19659002] The author of The Gorda and the author of Refuse of No Place claimed to be people torn apart by fractures but amused the audience with the event with a conversation full of tunes and funny stories Like the time they were having dinner and Juliano had cramps
"I proposed to do a massage on his muscles", said Isabela, who joked that the way the author changed position was with any woman.
Experience
Juliano Garcia Peçanha experienced his childhood marked by the suicide of his mother and left in this tragedy his experience of the non-place met in his last book. The experiment has left his life in a "permanent landing", in a constant position of "someone devastated".
"My self-writing belongs to someone who did not have it. revealed a shy humor that captivated the audience.
"Who is torn is always funny," he said, adding, "Always have a gesture that does not fit."
Memory
Isabela Figueiredo lived in Mozambique. She was sent by the family to Portugal after the country lost control of the colony in the 1970s. Years in Africa led the author to witness the racist violence of colonization and episodes of revenge and revenge "
" I have the memory of many violent acts practiced by settlers and many violent acts practiced later by the colonized, there is a lot of violence in my past, I write with violence because there is a lot of violence in me. "was never able to cope with the racism and violence with which his father treated blacks, and could only denounce prejudices after his death
" My father was colonialism. I could not go against my father, I had no power.
At the same time, he recalled that his father had asked him to convey to the Portuguese the violence that the whites had suffered after the end of colonization. "
" At the same time that he was saying that he was a racist, a colonialist, he finally conveyed the message that he meant. "
Reports culminated in the book Memories Colonial Notebook which was also published in Brazil. In Gorda his most recent work, the author discusses An unsatisfied protagonist of his own body, but not limited to that.
"The body is good, it's not a shame, it's not a taboo, this is not Is not a dissatisfaction, even when it's different, "she said, which was closely related to the physical descriptions." I have a great fascination for the body, to describe the body , I like this microscopic view of things. "
" [escrever] It's a physical gesture, it's taking the body's atoms that are in the body. are injured or celebrated with some experience and turn around. "
* The journalist traveled at the invitation of EDP, company sponsor of Flip
Edition: Armando Cardoso
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