Retratos femininos em ciclo ficcional de Fernanda Botelho: vozes narrativas e atmosfera de melancolia

Fernanda Botelho (1926–2007) is the author of a fictional work marked by originality in many respects, which spans about half a century, although it is among the unjustly forgotten contemporary writers. In Fernanda Botelho’s fictional cycle of the 1990s, endowed with different affinities – Festa em Casa de Flores (1990), Dramaticamente vestida de negro (1994) and As Contadoras de histórias (1998) –, the writer focuses on the analysis of significant gallery of female figures and some of the surrounding issues, in a daily life dominated by a disturbing banality: point of view and critical awareness; psychology and identity; interpersonal relationships and social condition; feelings of anguish and role of memory; ambiguity and ethical-social non-conformism; manifestations of humor and irony.