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Ciranda de pedra: Romance
Quando um casal de classe média se separa, a caçula, Virgínia, é a única das três filhas que vai morar com a mãe. É do ponto de vista dessa menina deslocada e solitária que se narram os dramas ocultos sob a superfície polida da família. Loucura, traição e morte são as forças perversas que animam esse singular romance de formação, que já na época de seu lançamento, em 1954, chamou a atenção para o talento e a originalidade da literatura de Lygia Fagundes Telles. Saudado com entusiasmo por intelectuais como Antonio Candido, Paulo Rónai, Otto Maria Carpeaux e Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Ciranda de Pedra mantém-se há meio século como um dos livros mais amados da autora. Sua popularidade é tão grande que rendeu duas telenovelas da Rede Globo, uma em 1981 e a outra em 2008.
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Lygia Fagundes Telles
92 books632 followersLygia Fagundes Telles (born April 19, 1923) is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers.
Her first book of short stories, Praia Viva (Living Beach), was published in 1944. In 1949 got the Afonso Arinos award for her short stories book O Cacto Vermelho (Red Cactus). Among her most successful books are Ciranda de Pedra (The Marble Dance) (1954), Verão no Aquário (1963), Antes do Baile Verde (1970), Seminário dos Ratos (1977) and As Horas Nuas, (1989). The book Antes do Baile Verde won the Best Foreign Women Writers Grand Prix in Cannes (France) in 1969.
Her most famous novel is As Meninas (The Girl in the Photograph), which tells the story of three young women in the early 1970s, a hard time in the political history of Brazil due to the repression by the military dictatorship. In 2005 she won the Camões Prize, the greatest literary award in the Portuguese language.[1]
She is one of the three female members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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Her first book of short stories, Praia Viva (Living Beach), was published in 1944. In 1949 got the Afonso Arinos award for her short stories book O Cacto Vermelho (Red Cactus). Among her most successful books are Ciranda de Pedra (The Marble Dance) (1954), Verão no Aquário (1963), Antes do Baile Verde (1970), Seminário dos Ratos (1977) and As Horas Nuas, (1989). The book Antes do Baile Verde won the Best Foreign Women Writers Grand Prix in Cannes (France) in 1969.
Her most famous novel is As Meninas (The Girl in the Photograph), which tells the story of three young women in the early 1970s, a hard time in the political history of Brazil due to the repression by the military dictatorship. In 2005 she won the Camões Prize, the greatest literary award in the Portuguese language.[1]
She is one of the three female members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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