Tanta gente, Mariana

The secret writer of a great secret literature -the Portuguese-, Maria Judite de Carvalho has been described as a "lucid fever" and a "discreet flower". She is a tireless observer of everyday life, which she relates mainly through female despair and loneliness, she is the author of one of the most complex and stimulating literary works of the second half of the 20th century. The publication of So many people, Mariana in 1959 caused a sensation. The stories that compose it, as absorbing as all of her work, belong to a country and a time, but they transcend them; His writing is timeless, masterful, and exhibits a sublime sense of humor that narrates love, heartbreak, desire, waiting and private ruin, immersing himself in the depths of his protagonists, characters adrift in the day-to-day life of the city ??(of his cities: Lisbon or Paris, which he knew so well). Because of her admirable restraint, because of her dazzling beauty, and because of her stubborn accuracy, her prose suggests, penetrates, consumes, defines, hurts... It is impossible to go through it and come out unscathed. What else can we ask of great literature?