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Entre irmãs by Frances de Pontes Peebles5/21/2023 ![]() “You invite the person to imagine how it could have been. "There is a level of emotional engagement when you play with someone's imagination,” continues the novelist. “Going through someone’s experience is not knowing that experience - you have to project yourself into it,” he adds. “All of these works explore something that I hope to shed light on - something human that often disappears from the horizon of how we talk about history and historical figures,” he remarks. In these new works, Passos - who is also a literary scholar and professor of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures in the department of Spanish & Portuguese - offers readers a chance to viscerally relate to historical events and personages. ![]() ![]() The result of his recent explorations is a flurry of well-reviewed publications in Portuguese: the short story “Marinheiro só ”* (see translation published in Manoa 30, 2018), the novels “ O Marechal de Costas ” (Alfaguara/Companhia das Letras, 2016) and “ Antologia fantástica da República brasileira ” (Cepe Editora, 2017) and the novella “ A órbita de King Kong ” (Quelônio, 2017). UCLA International Institute, FebruAward-winning Brazilian novelist José Luiz Passos, who became director of the Center for Brazilian Studies for the second time last summer, has been busy exploring the limits of fiction and history. ![]()
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