How family oppression in the northeastern hinterland shaped the sensibility of writer Marcelino Freire
[ad_1] The book "Escalavra" is identified by its author, the Pernambucan Marcelino Freire, as a "megalithic novel". The definition might seem presumptuous if it were associated with something monumental, with great stone constructions, but when translated by the writer, it takes on epic contours relating to the characters and their impediments or evolutions in life. "It's a work made up of words...