A repetição

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Pedro Cesarino

Totanauá is the first of his people to learn to read. Listen to strange words on paper that talk about a new time. He tries to pass them on to his relatives, who receive the revelations without knowing whether or not they believe in the old man. Settled in the garden of a hospital, M. hears reports of people disturbed by dreams of relatives who have died from a devastating illness. During the night, he receives visits from spirit women who enter through his apartment window. Will they bring explanations about enigmatic dreams? Do the dreams have anything to do with the desolate state in which the metropolis and the entire territory in which M. lives is found? From his apartment, the narrator recalls his childhood and discovers documents that connect to the past through dreams and visions. In these two novels gathered in A Repetition, Pedro Cesarino masterfully narrates the journey of two characters involved in dilemmas about the truth. Located in different worlds ― the forest, the metropolis and the coast ― both are confronted with the legacy of slavery, violence against indigenous peoples and economic exploitation. Using historical facts, studies and documents to write fiction, Pedro Cesarino develops a heterodox narrative and imagery record, established from the interlocution with indigenous and afrocentric thoughts still little present in contemporary Brazilian literature.

Year
2023