excerpt

Dali separates my legs and, merely by separating, relights the blaze in my core. Noooow. Now, in the voice of Billie, and it is Dali extinguishing in my cavern that very fire, whether at the mouth of the tunnel saying Lia to me, whether deep inside whispering Passion, flinging me wet onto a distant beach where I know nothing of the story I have lived.


synopsis

A paixão de Lia is a work of fiction through which feminine desire is expressed poetically. Lia’s story is that of her fantasy, her passage from one situation to another, in which, through imagination, she attains her desires.

Five vows in five chapters: My Man, The Brothel, The Courtesan, Lesbos, and Ave, Maria!

The protagonist’s erotic monologue is a journey in which we hear both Lia’s voice and the female voices in which she envelops herself – Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf. The reader travels hearing and transporting himself to the places Lia dreams about: Paris, Buenos Aires, New York…

In this text, the heroine gives scant importance to sexual gratification and says that even in the brothel the only requisite should be pleasure. What interests her is the imagined sex, and this is why Betty Milan, evoking Fernando Pessoa, says in the introduction that “on earth it is as necessary to dream as to navigate.”


history

The book was published by Editora Globo in 1994 and had its launching at the Livraria Cultura on August 5, 1994.
It had two printings and was adapted for the theater, where  the play was read at the auditorium of the Folha de S. Paulo by Giulia Gam and José Celso Martinez Corrêa, who also directed the dramatic reading held on February 26, 2002. In 2006, it was transformed into the second part of Trilogia do amor, as yet unpublished in its present form.


opinion

“A polyphony of voices … The author ventures into a line of writers to which belong Lúcio Cardoso and Clarice Lispector.”
Deonísio da Silva, Jornal do Brasil, January 28, 1995


areas of interest

Literature, Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, because of its focus on female desire.


critical reaction

(see Portuguese version)


where to purchase

Amazon (portuguese – printed)  | A Triologia do Amor – Livraria Cultura (portuguese – printed) | A Triologia do Amor – Livraria Cultura (portuguese – e-book)