Zélia, uma paixão

by Fernando Sabino

Fernando Sabino relata o período em que Zélia Cardoso de Mello esteve à frente do Ministério da Economia, e dá detalhes sobre sua conturbada paixão por Bernardo Cabral.

267 pages

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Fernando Sabino (October 12, 1923 - October 11, 2004) was a Brazilian writer and journalist.
Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where he lived until he was twenty, when he moved to Rio de Janeiro.
Sabino was the author of 50 books, as well as many short stories and essays. His first book was published in 1941, when he was just 18 years old. Sabino vaulted to national and international fame in 1956 with the novel A Time to Meet, the tale of three friends in the inland city of Belo Horizonte. The book was inspired by Sabino's life history.
Sabino also enjoyed commercial success with The Great Insane and The Naked Man, which were made into films.
Sabino considered friendship to be one of the most important things in life. His circle of friends included Hélio Pellegrino, Otto Lara Resende, Paulo Mendes Campos, Rubem Braga, Clarice Lispector, Vinicius de Moraes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Mário de Andrade, and Manuel Bandeira.
In the last ten years of his life, Sabino was distant from the media. Many of his close friends died before him. Two years before his death, Sabino was diagnosed with cancer. Following a prolonged illness, he died one day before his 81st birthday in his Rio de Janeiro home.

Reviews

[Lígia Medeiros · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Os homens que encontrei tiveram medo da minha fortaleza. E não atentaram para a minha fragilidade, tudo o que eu tinha. Minha fortaleza, invenção de minha alma para me proteger da minha fragilidade" (p. 84).