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\ncritical reaction<\/a>
\nwhere to purchase<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a>excerpt<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSeeing me, the Doctor dreamed, Pantagruelian hunger. Obviously, it was I who would be paying for the dream. True, I could only deliver the equivalent of several bunches of bananas in heavy gold, because in the past my people played the role of beasts of burden, a hundred kilos on their back, drawing blood and pus, peddling from sun to sun and door to door. Of course I would never say that to the great man.
\nCalling card? Well, simply to omit the story of those who left Lebanon to seek their fortune in the New World, the saga of my grandparents, the “Turks” of A\u00e7u, also called people-eaters, those who in France would have merely been Arabs among other Arabs.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>synopsis<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nLacan\u2019s Parrot<\/em> is a novel about the \u201cTurks\u201d in Brazil. The story is told by Seriema, one of descendants, who travels to France to undergo her analysis with a renowned Doctor inspired by Jacques Lacan. Recovering from the analysis as well as her immigrant past, she frees herself from the Doctor and from her ancestors to become who she wants to be, and to cultivate her mother tongue, with which she dreams and wishes to live. Thanks to analysis, Seriema accepts her origins as well as her biological sex. She departs from the scene happy as a Brazilian and a woman.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>history<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nFirst published in Brazil in 1991 by Editora Siciliano, its book launching took place at the Livraria Siciliano on July 3, 1991. In 1997, it was published in France by Editions de l’Aube and launched at the Brazilian Embassy and at the Maison de l\u00b9Am\u00e9rique Latine. The French translation led the author \u00a0to rewrite the text in Portuguese. The definitive version was published by Record, in 1998, and launched at Livraria Cultura on March 4, 1998. In addition to being published in French, it was translated into Spanish and published in Argentina by Homo Sapiens that same year (photos and posters<\/a><\/strong>). In 2019 the rights to film adaptation of the book were bought by the american director Richard Ledes . The movie counts with David Lynch’s actor David Patrick Kelly, in the role of Lacan, and Ismenia Mendes as Seriema.<\/p>\nEditions<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>opinion<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nBRASIL <\/span>
\n“She writes like someone replacing the crossties on a railroad track for a new train route. Think about it. Sweet like grape honey.”
\nJos\u00e9 Celso Martinez Corr\u00eaa, Folha de S. Paulo<\/em>, September 7, 1991<\/span><\/p>\n“I read the book taking delight on several levels: the fictional, the documentary, and the level of personal testimony.”
\nMoacyr Scliar, November 1991<\/span><\/p>\n“I enjoyed both your Parrot and your Doctor. And Seriema, with so many twists and turns, always very well written.”
\nOtto Lara Resende, letter of March 17, 1992<\/span><\/p>\n“In this novel, Betty Milan imparts a subtle touch of modernity to our prose fiction, still quite accustomed to the documental (…) leading the Brazilian to contemplate himself in the mirror of the world, and not merely in the limits of our third world.”
\nDeon\u00edsio da Silva, O Globo<\/em>, March 7, 1998<\/span><\/p>\nFRANCE <\/span>
\n“The story, given the simplicity that emerges in every strong work, can be synthesized \u00a0in a single proposition: Seriema goes in search of her soul in the capital of the spirit, discovering there that she is in her country of origin and that the spirit hovers in all places.”
\nMich\u00e8le Sarde, afterword to the book<\/span><\/p>\nARGENTINA<\/span>
\n“O Papagaio e o Doutor<\/em> is the testimony that it is possible to disengage oneself from maktub<\/em> to write a more personal story.”
\nJos\u00e9 Manuel Ramirez, May 4, 2000<\/span><\/p>\nBELGIUM<\/span>
\n“Seriema retraces with incredible power the destiny of Don Quixote. The day he renounces his dream, he dies. The day she does the same, she dies, only to truly live.
\nIn this sense, O Papagaio e o Doutor <\/em>is a novel that soothes the soul.”
\nPierre Maury, Le Soir<\/em>, March 18, 1997<\/span><\/p>\nPORTUGAL<\/span>
\n“A very intelligent book, quite funny, very theoretical, and very well written, that pleased me from beginning to end, and made me feel like engaging in dialogue.”
\nEduardo Prado Coelho, April 22, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>areas of interest
\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nLiterature, Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, because of its portrayal of analysis with Lacan. Sociology and History, because of narrating episodes of Lebanese immigration in Brazil.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>critical reaction<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n(see Portuguese version)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>where to purchase<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nCalling card? Well, simply to omit the story of those who left Lebanon to seek their fortune in the New World, the saga of my grandparents, the “Turks” of A\u00e7u, also called people-eaters, those who in France would have merely been Arabs among other Arabs.<\/p>\n
Lacan\u2019s Parrot<\/em> is a novel about the \u201cTurks\u201d in Brazil. The story is told by Seriema, one of descendants, who travels to France to undergo her analysis with a renowned Doctor inspired by Jacques Lacan. Recovering from the analysis as well as her immigrant past, she frees herself from the Doctor and from her ancestors to become who she wants to be, and to cultivate her mother tongue, with which she dreams and wishes to live. Thanks to analysis, Seriema accepts her origins as well as her biological sex. She departs from the scene happy as a Brazilian and a woman.<\/p>\n First published in Brazil in 1991 by Editora Siciliano, its book launching took place at the Livraria Siciliano on July 3, 1991. In 1997, it was published in France by Editions de l’Aube and launched at the Brazilian Embassy and at the Maison de l\u00b9Am\u00e9rique Latine. The French translation led the author \u00a0to rewrite the text in Portuguese. The definitive version was published by Record, in 1998, and launched at Livraria Cultura on March 4, 1998. In addition to being published in French, it was translated into Spanish and published in Argentina by Homo Sapiens that same year (photos and posters<\/a><\/strong>). In 2019 the rights to film adaptation of the book were bought by the american director Richard Ledes . The movie counts with David Lynch’s actor David Patrick Kelly, in the role of Lacan, and Ismenia Mendes as Seriema.<\/p>\n Editions<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n BRASIL <\/span> “I read the book taking delight on several levels: the fictional, the documentary, and the level of personal testimony.” “I enjoyed both your Parrot and your Doctor. And Seriema, with so many twists and turns, always very well written.” “In this novel, Betty Milan imparts a subtle touch of modernity to our prose fiction, still quite accustomed to the documental (…) leading the Brazilian to contemplate himself in the mirror of the world, and not merely in the limits of our third world.” FRANCE <\/span> ARGENTINA<\/span> BELGIUM<\/span> PORTUGAL<\/span> Literature, Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, because of its portrayal of analysis with Lacan. Sociology and History, because of narrating episodes of Lebanese immigration in Brazil.<\/p>\n (see Portuguese version)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>history<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>opinion<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n“She writes like someone replacing the crossties on a railroad track for a new train route. Think about it. Sweet like grape honey.”
\nJos\u00e9 Celso Martinez Corr\u00eaa, Folha de S. Paulo<\/em>, September 7, 1991<\/span><\/p>\n
\nMoacyr Scliar, November 1991<\/span><\/p>\n
\nOtto Lara Resende, letter of March 17, 1992<\/span><\/p>\n
\nDeon\u00edsio da Silva, O Globo<\/em>, March 7, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n
\n“The story, given the simplicity that emerges in every strong work, can be synthesized \u00a0in a single proposition: Seriema goes in search of her soul in the capital of the spirit, discovering there that she is in her country of origin and that the spirit hovers in all places.”
\nMich\u00e8le Sarde, afterword to the book<\/span><\/p>\n
\n“O Papagaio e o Doutor<\/em> is the testimony that it is possible to disengage oneself from maktub<\/em> to write a more personal story.”
\nJos\u00e9 Manuel Ramirez, May 4, 2000<\/span><\/p>\n
\n“Seriema retraces with incredible power the destiny of Don Quixote. The day he renounces his dream, he dies. The day she does the same, she dies, only to truly live.
\nIn this sense, O Papagaio e o Doutor <\/em>is a novel that soothes the soul.”
\nPierre Maury, Le Soir<\/em>, March 18, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n
\n“A very intelligent book, quite funny, very theoretical, and very well written, that pleased me from beginning to end, and made me feel like engaging in dialogue.”
\nEduardo Prado Coelho, April 22, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>areas of interest
\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>critical reaction<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>where to purchase<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n