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A Confissão da Leoa
By Mia Couto
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[...] Os nossos jovens colegas trabalhavam no mato, dormindo em tendas de campanha e circulando a pé entre as aldeias. Eles constituíam um alvo fácil para os felinos. Era urgente enviar caçadores que os protegessem. Os caçadores passaram por dois meses de frustração e terror, acudindo a diários pedidos de socorro até conseguirem matar os leões assassinos. Mas não foram apenas essas dificuldades que enfrentaram. De forma permanente lhes era sugerido que os verdadeiros culpados eram habitantes do mundo invisível, onde a espingarda e a bala perdem toda a eficácia. Aos poucos, os caçadores entenderam que os mistérios que enfrentavam eram apenas os sintomas de conflitos sociais que superavam largamente a sua capacidade de resposta. Vivi esta situação muito de perto. Frequentes visitas que fiz ao local onde decorria este drama sugeriram-me a história que aqui relato, inspirada em factos e personagens reais.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing Is a Dangerous Form of Vanity: "Confession of the Lioness" by Mia Couto Published July 14, 2015 (English edition)
Published 2012 (Portuguese Edition)
Translation by David Brookshaw.
Disclaimer: I received an advance reader's copy of this book directly from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed are my own, and no monetary compensation was received for this review.
(The book was published on July 2015; review written 02/08/2015)
“Careful, my granddaughter. Writing is a dangerous form of vanity. It fills the others with fear…” (Page 88)
(In the original Portuguese: “Cuidado, minha neta. Escrever é perigosa vaidade. Dá medo aos outros…”)
“The emptier one’s life, the more it is peopled by those who’ve already gone: the exiled, the insane, and the dead.” (Page 46)
(In the original Portuguese: “Quanto mais vazia a vida, mais ela é habitada por aqueles que já foram: os exilados, os loucos, os falecidos”.
For those of you who don’t know, Mia Couto is one of the most prominent writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa. Mia Couto was born in Beira, Mozambique. He was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. He’s also won the Camões Prize (the most prestigious Portuguese-language award), the 2014 recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (the so-called “American” Nobel). Incidentally the 2015 Man Booker Prize winner was László Krasznahorkai.
Back in the day I extensively read in Portuguese. Now not so much. Why? The Portuguese Spelling Reform is the culprit, but that’s for another time and place. When I got the chance to read the latest translation into English of one the most important writers writing in Portuguese I didn’t hesitate.
The rest of this review can be found elsewhere. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In an author's note, Couto says that [Confession of the Lioness] is based on a series of lion attacks that really happened. In the story, he draws from the superstitions and myths of the place. The story is told in alternating chapters by a young woman who lives in the village besieged by lions, Mariamar, and by the hunter employed to kill the lions, Archangel Bullseye.What is the cause of the lion attacks? As the story unfolds, we see that the lions aren't the only things devouring the village; war and injustice and abuse are also crushing people's spirits:"It was war that explained the tragedy of Kulumani. Those lions weren't emerging from the bush. They were born out of the last armed conflict. The same upheaval of all wars was now being repeated: People had become animals and animals had become people."This is a little book, but there's a lot to think about here. I will definitely read more by Couto.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This reads a bit like mythology, but told from from two points of view: a man and a woman. He is a hunter hired to kill the lions that are terrorizing a village in Mozambique; she is a village girl who is a potential victim of the lions, but much more a victim of a society that marginalizes women. A haunting allegory. Library book.