Festivals claim the role of literature before the global crossroads

Moment of choice

The cycle ends Na Flicebira, from October 29 to November 2. The event will be marked by the delivery of the Juca Pato Award, from the hands of Conceição Evaristo and Miriam Leitão, the winners of the last two years.

In this case, literature and crossroads have a meeting scheduled with Carlos Drummond de Andrade and his poem “Machine of the World”.

“It was the beginning of the 1950s, when Drummond published” Claro Enigma “, the volume that brought us” the machine of the world “, says Abranches.” A time of many transformations in Brazil and worldwide, development, reconstruction of the AFTER WIDE, Bipolar World. She opened for the poet at that moment when there was a lot of perplexity, insecurity “and the most minimal hope,” he says.

The curator points out that today we live new times of very radical changes, digitization, advancement of technology about human activities, algorithms selecting what we should see in information exchange platforms, authoritarian advances, perplexity, insecurity and, again, the most minimal hope.

“A crossroads, with some light, with ways to choose where” the strict shit “still lands,” he says.

“It’s like Drummond dialogues with us to choose the theme of this 5th FliBira,” says Abranches. “Literature is our center, our periphery, our north, our south, our crossroads. It is the space of freedom that allows us to write as we want and whatever we want. Drummond did this,” he says.

For him, literature needs to be ambitious and seek this “total explanation of life” that the poet tells us in this poem. “That’s what each one seeks to do in their unique circumstances,” he says.

“The world’s machine is opening for us and literature is helping us to show us the crossroads it represents. The crossroads is the point of choice, there is still light and” the slightest hope “and we have to choose a new path, when they are all still under” the strict shit, “he says.

Abranches points out that the poet warns us that it would be in vain to repeat the past, “the same without sad script.” “The world machine invites us to innovate, seek new answers and even new questions,” he says.

“The machine of the world, which” has gone in (?) Majestic and circumspect is a metaphor for the image that many cultures make the crossroads, a renewal point, where several ways open, “says the curator.

“It’s a time of choice,” adds Abranches.