Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan writer José Luís Mendonça, this Friday, in Luanda, relaunched the book “As Metamorfose do Elefante”, a historical fiction of Angola in the post-colonial period and social current affairs.
The book, which features texts from various literary genres, is published by Mayamba Editora and has 200 pages.
The story wanders through illustrations such as chameleons, hyenas, a black fire cow, flying goats, a hawk with round wings and an elephant that, with different faces, represents power, in a country shaped by the vendetta of the 27th of May 1977, whose heritage greater is inhumane political repression.
The writer who talks about the adventures that marked a date in the history of independent Angola, based on the personification of an animal, revealed by a dream, underlines that the book is not a reissue of the first published in Portugal, but the same, since the Angolan public, so demanded.
José Luís Mendonça also personifies the Covid-19 pandemic, which turned into an outbreak like laughter, “half of Luanda has laughter and the other half does not”.
To readers, the writer, who is marked by the rigor of his publications, promises, in the near future, if there are interested publishers, the publication of the already finished poetry book with the title “Esse País Chamo Corpo de Mulher”.
José Luís Mendonça was born in 1955, in Golungo Alto, province of Cuanza Norte.
He is winner of the Sagrada Esperança award, Jogos Florales do Caxinde, Angola Thirty Years, as well as the National Prize for Culture and Arts in the Literature category.
José Luís Mendonça published the books: “O Reino das Casuarinas”, “Luanda Stay Longe and Other Austral Stories”, “Angola, Tell Me Still”, “A Song for Mussuemba”, among others.
In 2018, after leaving the Union of Angolan Writers and the Angolan Academy of Letters, he founded the Movement of New Intellectuals of Angola, from 1948, to rescue the legacy of the precursors of Angolan Literature.
In 2021, he won the SADC Journalism Award, in the Press category.
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