A Brazilian chronist and writter Lygia Fagundes Telles was a biggest literary personality in our field. There are a numerous comments on his works. In addition, in my view, the author is one of the great novelist of the 20th century, a fruitfull inheritance of the rich literary culture that links Machado de Assis to Lispector, for exemple.
Her literary style is unmistake: sensible words, love to live e subtle criticism of political culture. For her, an artist is a visionary. There is a free and criative way. One insatifation source which does us to live and experience the world around us. Proof of this is one of his main novels: "As Meninas" (1973) (The girls), which is set in the period of the Military Dictatorship. The clashes morals, the thoughts intermissions are demarcad here. The oscillations between lyricism and political context deal not only with aspects of the themes and meanings proper to the narratives that Lygia addressed in her book. We also have characters that seek a horizon of achievements.
For me, the short novel entitled "Antes do baile verde" (1970) (Before the Green Ball) is one the better of the writer. There are an clear nostalgize of the passaded times of the party populars (kind Carnaval). The relationships that oscillate between the joy of the a time and the fear of something the can make impossible moments.
So, history and memory, formation and social rooting, is linked in its themes, personal restlesness and experience of the world always in tension, and using construction base anything which be of the social or personal interess, in everyday life from where you can emerge.
Reading his short stories and novels is walking the paths of the on authentic literary force. Lygia is contist master in our times.
