From March 31, CEsA - Centre for African and Development Studies/ISEG Research will promote the Development Studies Book Club, which marks the 50th anniversary of the African Independencies, with the coordination of Professor and Researcher Susana Brissos.
The book club's inaugural session will be dedicated to the book 'Nós, os do Makulusu', by the Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira, starting from 4:30 PM, in Room 209 (Francesinhas 1 Building, 2nd Floor.)
Free admission, subject to the room's maximum capacity.
Synopsis
Written in 1967 in the Tarrafal concentration camp (known as the "Chão Bom Labor Camp") in just one week - "in a single jet", to use the author's own words - 'Nós, os do Makulusu' remains José Luandino Vieira's most complex work in his process of constructing a literary language based on the popular language of Luanda and the interferences between the Portuguese and Quimbunda languages. This is certainly not unrelated to the fact that, alongside the flow of the past - a constant in all his books - the future is also brought into the narrative, obviously in a prospective form. A narrative whose subject, questioning himself until the very last line, is ultimately the mirror of a generation faced with the historical necessity of a war of liberation - both individual and collective - and which had to question the past and set out to invent the future. Ending with a questioning of that future, the novel remains more topical today than when it was written. The answer to the final question remains open.
