Africa-Press – Angola. The historical novel “Margens e Travessias” by the writer Boaventura Cardoso is on the market today, at 5 pm, at the Museu da Moeda, with the seal of Mayamba Editora and a presentation by the poet and literary critic Abreu Paxe.
Marco Lucchesi, writer and president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, made the following comment: “Boaventura Cardoso produced a great novel. The diffuse poetic sense that runs through it is indelible. You hear the music of thought, the expression of a serene and vibrant language. ”.
In the introductory text of the Portuguese edition, we find a message from Rita da Silva Cardoso, the author’s mother, who writes that “at the edges of this novel I inscribed part of what I wrote on pagelas. The story of my bitterness is long; I can’t tell it all, nor is it convenient, besides the fact that I don’t have the life to keep so many memories. Okay, so be it. May one day the history of suffering mothers like I was written.
Anyway, my son, to you who are a writer, I entrust these papers. Publish them at the appropriate time; perhaps it is better to hope that one day this expired regime of revolutionary democratic dictatorship will end…; give it a try, Bonaventure. In any case, I carry the pain of suffering mothers with me, although their pain is greater; Fatima brought my son back to me. They weren’t so lucky; they mourn the untimely death of their children to this day. I take their pain with me – write this, my son, on my tombstone where it will rest forever. Now, so as not to interfere with your reading, dear reader, I migrate and fly to other shores”.
Cármen Lúcia Tindó Secco, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, leaves the following assessment: “it is a historical novel in which geography also plays a leading role in the novelistic construction, whose countless crossings penetrate the submerged margins of Angola’s history, at the same time that, through the language of poetry, weave a third edge of the story.
A founding member of the Angolan Writers’ Union and the Angolan Academy of Letters, of which he was the first president, he is the author of the short story books “Dizanga dya Muenhu” (1977), “O Fogo da Fala” (1980) and “A Morte do Velho Kipacaça” (1987) and the novels “O Signo do Fogo” (1992), “May, Mês de Maria” (1997), “Mãe, Materno Mar” (2001) and “Vigil Nights” (2012). with the National Prize for Culture and Arts in 2001, he is an honorary member of the Academia Palmense de Letras and Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit since 2006.
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