At the carnival balls of the early 1940s, you couldn't forget that there was a war. The climate of mobilization and the participation of public bodies in the financial support to the parades of the samba schools contributed so that the most throbbing subjects and bids of the conflicts could serve as a theme for the songs. General matters continued, but they were unable to cover the atmosphere of uncertainty and...
The Holocaust is today a privileged theme in the discussion agenda of different disciplines of the Humanities and arts, in other parts of the world and also in Brazil. Disseminated in studies inserted in the rubric “testimony in literature”, this theme and its consequences make up an interdisciplinary field of research carried out in different contexts in the phase of expansion and deepening. It is a work in pr...
Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk wrote a blog in which cuts, comings and goings interrupt the continuity of the speech, creating parts that do not lead to a sense of continuity. Despite the difficult and varied focus and the irregular rhythm, the obstinacy of a project allied with the indestructible character of a desire unfolds before the reader. The author reports on aspects of his history in this network, through...
What stands out in the poetry of Lúcia Aizim is your unique and personal rhythm, and even thematic depictions in which Judaism transpires as larded with hybrid tropical Brazilian elements. This mix, drawn in different dimensions, erects a singular poetic, with differentiated resonances, who denounce abroad brought to the national body, the contemplative attitude focused on Jewish tradition, which nourishes, how...
This article analyzes the intricate relationships between food, family and writing in the work of Cíntia Moscovich. In frank dialogue with Jewish tradition, Moscovich approaches to other writers like Sholem Aleichem and Clarice Lispector, especially with regard to the autobiography, the tradition and the very act of writing.; Este artigo analisa as intrincadas relações entre comida, família e escrita na obra de...
Resenha a: BLANK, Paulo. Mentch, a arte de criar um homem. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 2016. 216p.
The purpose of this article is to reflect on a few examples of how the Brazilian literature has configured the atrocities perpetrated during the Second World War, the Shoah, positioning itself in relation to memory and oblivion.; O propósito deste artigo é refletir sobre alguns exemplos de como a literatura brasileira configurou as atrocidades perpetradas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a Shoá, posicionando-s...
Menuha Nehona, originally published in Israel in1982and released in Brazil only in 2010under the title Uma certa paz, the internationally acclaimed book by Amos Oz, focuses on the interval between the years1965and 1967, immediately prior to the Six Days War that modified the State of Israel in a radical way. It was after this war that Israel developed a craving for the occupied territories and began to use mili...