{"title":"Cecilia Prada","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"farois-estrabicos-na-noite","title":"Squinting headlights in the night","description":"\"Squint-eyed Lighthouses in the Night,\" Cecilia Prada's fifth book of fiction, carries out in its short stories a proposal taken from Guimarães Rosa's phrase, \"we navigate life served by squint-eyed lighthouses.\" Cecilia is a master in the art of lifting the veil, delving into the depths of situations and characters, and exposing the fundamental errors of the ideas that permeate society and the family, and divert people from the course of existential authenticity. But her literature is not only introspective. If in other works of fiction the author had used her power to expose her family ghosts, in several short stories, and especially in the internationally famous \"La Pietà\" from 1972 (included in two of her previous books), she exposed crudely and with the vigor of a journalist who also possesses the social reality of the excluded, of those who reproduce in their punished daily lives the great tragedies of humanity. This extension of the individual to the social is also present in this volume, from the first story, \"Aprendizado,\" which takes us to a vision of the 1960s guerrilla movement against the military dictatorship, right up to her final, autobiographical text, \"Drums of Doomsday,\" in which she recounts her experience in New York during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And even in \"Trails of Dawn\" or the extensive two-part short story, \"The Consecrated,\" revisiting themes from her childhood, she manages to place them within the broader panorama of conflicting ideologies, debunking religious and political myths—always maintaining, however, her literary language. Present in Brazilian literature and journalism since the mid-1950s, Cecilia constantly questions the circumstances surrounding women in our society, which imprison them as \"second-class citizens.\" She herself had a unique and dramatic experience at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: from 1955 onwards, she attended our diplomatic academy, the Rio Branco Institute, graduated, and worked there until the end of 1958—when, upon marrying a colleague from her career, she was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. forced her to resign, an act that violates all constitutional principles. To this day, Cecilia has fought in vain in the Brazilian courts for the compensation she is more than owed. In the 1970s, she played a prominent role in the feminist movement, and in her 2007 book, \"A pena e o escorilho,\" she studies the lives and works of Brazilian women writers who, in one way or another, fought against discrimination to assert themselves. \n\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175908360444,"sku":"9788528614015","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/272517aa544b1f012a438fb319c29948.jpg?v=1778320091"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/cecilia-prada.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}