Africa-Press – Angola. “Herdeiros do Pecado” is the newest literary work by Angolan writer and essayist António Quino, launched today, Friday, at the Union of Angolan Writers (UEA), in Luanda, under the seal of Editora Mayamba.
It is a textual product with a narrative bent, produced over ten years, and which will be sold at seven thousand cuanzas. Initially, a thousand copies are available with various stories and characters.
It is a novel that portrays the vices of today’s society and that also brings scenarios and themes that present a certain disharmony, promoting sins, while devirtualizing codes and norms canonically accepted as ideal.
According to António Quino, “the idea of sin, clear in religious books, is, however, debatable in our societies, just like harassment, stripping a widow of her property, adultery, migrations with enormous cultural consequences and other humorous topics.
He clarified that while he was writing this literary work, there was a period of conception (beginning in 2013-2014) that began to take shape in 2019, and another period of literary maturation, consolidated during the pandemic period.
The writer and essayist highlighted that they are soap opera-style narratives, through which he seeks to create continuity in each chapter in order to provoke some suspense in each story.
Regarding public acceptance, he made it known that he has been receiving, so far, extremely satisfactory feedback, which makes him believe that he has probably achieved his objectives.
“I have said, for the literary issue, a thousand times a good reader, than a thousand bad readers, because when a good reader appears who has the ability to produce reflections based on what the writer brings, it is very satisfying (…. )“, said the artist.
In addition to being a writer and essayist, the author of “Herdeiros do Pecado” is a literary critic, anthologist, columnist, novelist, journalist and doctor in Literature Sciences from the University of Minho (Braga – Portugal).
António Quino also has a master’s degree in Teaching Literature in the Portuguese Language from the Agostinho Neto University (Luanda – Angola) and teaches at the Higher Institute of Education Sciences in Luanda.
He is a member of the Union of Angolan Writers and co-founder of the Angolan Academy of Letters, currently serving as Secretary General of the institution.
Likewise, he is the author of the books “Two faces of hope: Agostinho Neto and António Nobre in a comparative study (Luanda, 2014)”, “República do Vírus”, and organizer of the anthologies: “Conversations of Men in the Angolan Tale”, “Balada de Men Who Dream” and “António Agostinho Neto: The Path of the Stars”.
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