Macabéa flor de mulungu
Sinopse
Conceição rereads Clarice. “If this story doesn’t exist, it will exist. (Clarice Lispector)” Almost 50 years ago, Clarice Lispector published A hora da Estrela, her last and most emblematic novel. Macabéa was then born, a young northeastern girl, poor and migrant, whose life was marked by pain, silence and erasure. Now, the Mulungu Flower sprouts. In this illustrated tale, the award-winning and unavoidable voice of contemporary Brazilian literature Conceição Evaristo revisits and gives new contours to Macabéa, in a literary manifesto that places writing as a way of making life come alive. “The Flower of Mulungu was not going to die. No. The fetal position she was in was an indication that a new life was opening up. She was going to be born for her and with her. Macabéa was going to give birth. Flower of Mulungu had the power of life. Driving force of a people who resiliently frame her cry. ” - Conceição Evaristo Evaristo’s look at this character is realistic, it evokes the ancestry of Macabéa (and all the Macabéas that live there) to sew a new trajectory in which “Women like Macabéa don’t die. They tend to be spokespeople for other women, just like them."-- Publisher information.
Sinopse
Conceição rereads Clarice. “If this story doesn’t exist, it will exist. (Clarice Lispector)” Almost 50 years ago, Clarice Lispector published A hora da Estrela, her last and most emblematic novel. Macabéa was then born, a young northeastern girl, poor and migrant, whose life was marked by pain, silence and erasure. Now, the Mulungu Flower sprouts. In this illustrated tale, the award-winning and unavoidable voice of contemporary Brazilian literature Conceição Evaristo revisits and gives new contours to Macabéa, in a literary manifesto that places writing as a way of making life come alive. “The Flower of Mulungu was not going to die. No. The fetal position she was in was an indication that a new life was opening up. She was going to be born for her and with her. Macabéa was going to give birth. Flower of Mulungu had the power of life. Driving force of a people who resiliently frame her cry. ” - Conceição Evaristo Evaristo’s look at this character is realistic, it evokes the ancestry of Macabéa (and all the Macabéas that live there) to sew a new trajectory in which “Women like Macabéa don’t die. They tend to be spokespeople for other women, just like them."-- Publisher information.