Posted in CULTURA on 11/2/2022 12:40 p.m
Lula (PT) enjoyed the holiday this Wednesday (2) and a threeday break in Bahia, a state where he received 6,097,815 votes 72.12% of the valid votes and took to social media to give his followers two recommending books, emphasizing his policy of exchanging arms for literature.
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“Since not everyone can take a road and travel this holiday, #EquipeLula would like to nominate two books, one of President Lula’s favorites,” read the tweet, which recommended Torto Arado by Itamar Vieira Junior and Um Defeito de Cor. by Ana Maria Goncalves.
The two works were read by Lula during 580 days of unjustified detention at the Federal Police Department in Curitiba.
Torto Arado, written by Itamar Vieira, who struggled with PT, won the 2020 Jabuti Prize for Best Novel. The work’s title refers to an archaic and obsolete agricultural tool that symbolizes the persistence of the colonial past and the traces of slavery in Brazilian society.
The book tells a novel set in the Bahia hinterland, in which sisters Bibiana and Belonísia find an ancient and mysterious knife in the suitcase kept under their grandmother’s bed. An accident connects the two forever.
Vieira, who is an official at the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra), says the idea for the novel came from contact with Quilombola communities in Bahia, which led to his PhD in Ethnic and African Studies at the Federal University of Bahia . .
The novel has as first influences regionalist authors of the socalled Generation 30 of modernity in Brazil such as Jorge Amado, Graciliano Ramos and Rachel de Queiroz. The author also cites authors such as Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, Lima Barreto, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Raduan Nassar as influences.
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Published in 2006 after 5 years of work, Um Defeito de Cor is the second book by Minas Gerais author Ana Maria Gonçalves, also on slavery in Brazil.
In the novel, Kehinde, who was captured in Dahomey, Benin at the age of eight, is taken to Brazil as a slave and renamed Luiza. The novel is inspired by the life of Luísa Mahin, the celebrated heroine of the Malês Uprising that took place in Salvador in 1835.
Elderly, blind and close to death, she tells her own story, marked by death, rape, violence and slavery, which is confused with the history of Brazil.
On more than a thousand pages, the book tells historical events in the midst of the everyday life of the main character in an original way.
The work won the 2007 Casa de las Américas Prize in the Brazilian Literature category and was considered by Millôr Fernandes to be the most important book in 21st century Brazilian literature.