Luísa Costa Gomes (part 1): “What we see in mass as a book is self-help, proselytism and moralism. A book is not a savoy cabbage!”
Multifaceted and surprising, in her writing Luísa Costa Gomes addresses all types of topics, in all types of formats. Short story writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, chronicler and translator, she wrote 8 novels, 6 collections of stories, 2 librettos and has been honored with the most relevant awards in Portuguese literature.
Those who know her well say that Luísa Costa Gomes is bold, a perfectionist, and is not afraid of anything. If you feel like it… do it.
Matilde Fieschi
And he does it brilliantly, with his own uniqueness, irony and humor. She herself admits that she has a lot of fun in the writing process and that she has a particular pleasure in making people who read her laugh and in making them reflect on the paradoxes of life.
In addition to books, Luísa has worked on television and radio, written for opera and cinema and has a long relationship with the theater. And as for this stage, the play “De Passagem”, with a text written by him, was recently awarded a Golden Globe in the best theater show category.
A play about conversation and dialogue as a form of exchange, hope and understanding. And I ask: How willing are we to dialogue and understand others who are different from us? And how can dogmas extreme the so-called political correctness? This topic is addressed in this first part of the podcast.
Matilde Fieschi
On this journey of so many decades, Luísa Costa Gomes has already stated that one of her great pleasures in the writing process is the research that gives rise to her texts. And the game it creates with those who read it. He never takes the obvious path, and has the flair and ingenuity to transform the seemingly simplest and most banal subjects into precious literature. And here you clarify how you do it. And with what method and routine.
The author states that it took her two years to write and rewrite this new collection of 13 unpublished short stories: “Visiting friends and other stories”, edited by D. Quixote.
José Fernandes
A title that addresses friendship, with its encounters and disagreements, and alternates between stories with a more acidic and corrosive humor, and others made of astonishment, which relate in one way or another to issues of time and History, and the way each character interferes or acts towards her.
Matilde Fieschi
And Luísa reveals here which of the stories took her the most time to rewrite and why it was so laborious. At the end of this first part, the writer is surprised by an audio from the editor who has been with her for 30 years, Cecília Andrade.
