As Pessoas do Drama
“The Persons of the Drama” (title translated by AI)
H. G. Cancela (born 1967)
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A man with no name tells the story in the first person. It starts with a face on a screen: an actress whose image he cannot shake off, until he sets out to find the woman herself. She is Laura, who lives to be looked at and can hardly tell the roles she plays from her own life; she is now rehearsing Antigone, staged as blind and pregnant, for Filippo, a director who holds that watching means giving up the wish to touch or own. Everyone in this small company has fallen short of something. A family's guilt, incest and violence come to the surface, and the drama on stage opens onto Europe's past and its long entanglement with the Arab world.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 283 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2017 by Relógio D'Água
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9789896417260 (original)