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O coração que chora e que ri: Contos verdadeiros da minha infância

Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer

Penned By Maryse Condé
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O coração que chora e que ri: Contos verdadeiros da minha infância

Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer

Penned By Maryse Condé
4.85 18,340 Ratings
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Editor's Note:
LIVRO VENCEDOR DO PRÊMIO MARGUERITE YOURCENAR.Neste que é um dos mais celebrados livros de Maryse Condé, as memórias de infância são também a narrativa de sua formação. Na Guadalupe dos anos 1940 e 1950, em um ambiente burguês, deve-se evitar falar a língua local, o créole. As convenções sociais se impõem sobre os sentimentos: não se chora diante do cadáver de um ente querido; não se comenta um divórcio na família. No contexto doméstico, cercado por mentiras, com uma mãe extremamente severa – com os outros e consigo mesma – e um pai reservado, a pequena Maryse segue o caminho da rebelião. A sua fuga para um mundo imaginário, a sede por conhecimento e por autonomia a guiam para o destino de escritora.Ao retomar a sua história, Condé evoca a criança que percorre as paisagens caribenhas, a jovem que descobre em Paris a sua identidade negra, e revive o momento que lhe devolveu o amor pela sua família: “Eu deslizei a mão por entre seus seios que tinham amamentado oito filhos, agora inúteis, murchos, e ali passei toda a noite, ela grudada em mim, eu enrolada como uma bolinha contra seu flanco, sentindo seu cheiro de idosa e de arnica, sentindo seu calor”. Naquela noite, Maryse encontrou sua mãe ao perdê-la.

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Length 184 Pages
Language Por
Imprint Bazar do tempo
Released 1999
Identifier (ISBN) 75267617
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