Electra: the sister of struggle, the sister of the sun
The Sister of the Sun is undoubtedly the book in Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series with the most intensity and depth to date....
Category: Readings
Abandonment everywhere
Days of Abandonment, by Elena Ferrante, is a visceral and impactful story. It moved me to my core. If you're a woman, you'll certainly feel empathy. There will be...
Raw meat: a wound to the soul
After all, what are the boundaries of ethics? What are the limits of what is acceptable? Rubem Fonseca's last words in his last published book, Carne...
After blindness, lucidity... Could it be?
I don't know if lucidity will actually come after blindness. But for the dystopian universe created by Saramago, it did. What if we had the...
Yellow wallpaper, the women's prison
This is a masterpiece of literature, considered to be feminist. This is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which was first published in...
World in Chaos - fiction or reality?
A fascinating dystopia. A science fiction that could even be real, if we think about the political context that is so latent in this story! World in Chaos,...
Screams of Silence: the past does not forget
The book Screams of Silence, by Angela Marsons, is a crime thriller whose main character is a detective, Kim Stones - in fact, this...
Purple Hibiscus - the bloom of youth
Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, surprised me as a story and as a piece of writing. A delicate and even poetic way, why not, of telling the...
A treatise on the life and death of Ivan Ilyich
R Any words or expressions I could write would be to diminish the feeling I had when I read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leon Tolstoy....
Dom Casmurro - Did Capitu betray Bentinho or not?
Talking about this classic of Brazilian literature, written in 1899, which has been compulsory reading in schools and university entrance exams for decades, without falling into sameness...