Maria Judite de Carvalho

A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.

Empty Wardrobes

Obras completas

Tanta gente, Mariana

Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921-1998) is now recognized as a major Portuguese writer of the twentieth century. In the short story she found the perfect vessel for her frank depictions of tragic, ordinary lives, and So Many People, Mariana collects her first four books of short fiction in English for the first time, telling of women and men in moments of existential conflict: with their families; with themselves; with the prospect of a better future--or any future at all. These stories, originally published between 1959 and 1967, when the Salazar dictatorship and the rigid edicts of the Catholic church reigned, are acerbic, artful, and funny. Translated by the renowned Margaret Jull Costa, Carvalho leads readers into the sensuous dark of life under patriarchal capitalism, proffering tragic visions of class-conscious malaise "as precisely and without sentiment as an autopsy" (New York Review of Books).

So Many People, Mariana

"Carvalho's tale of fading grief, new life, and quiet devastation lays bare the limitations of patriarchal love and the ambient savageries perched and waiting in its every crevice"--

A presente coleção reúne a obra completa de Maria Judite de Carvalho, considerada uma das escritoras mais marcantes da literatura portuguesa do século XX. Herdeira do existencialismo e do nouveau roman, a sua voz é intemporal, tratando com mestria e um sentido de humor único temas fundamentais, como a solidão da vida na cidade e a angústia e o desespero espelhados no seu quotidiano anónimo. Observadora exímia, as suas personagens convivem com o ritmo fervilhante de uma vida avassalada por multidões, permanecendo reclusas em si mesmas, separadas por um monólogo da alma infinito. O presente volume inclui as crónicas publicadas sob o pseudónimo de Emília Bravo.

Obras Completas de Maria Judite de Carvalho - Vol. VI - Diários de Emília Bravo

"A collection of Maria Judite de Carvalho's work between 1959 and 1967: twenty-six short stories about men and women trapped by a culture that values them as workers but not as people"--

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