Honored by Serrano Empire, Conceição Evaristo reflected on the meaning of seeing his trajectory and his work transformed into a plot at Marquês de Sapucaí, on the second night of parades at the Rio de Janeiro Gold Seriesthis Saturday (14).
For the writer, the moment symbolizes . “Writing really captures people. I think about the text having both a collective resonance and the collective subject appropriating this text”, he stated.
The author highlighted that, when literature stops being individual and starts to be collectively appropriated, it .
“When the appropriation is collective, we are experiencing something that I have always said: literature as a people’s right. All popular classes have the right to literature.”
Seeing her work echoing in the form of samba, Conceição highlighted: “Appropriating my literature and taking this literature to samba, to Carnival, means that this literature has the most democratic path possible.”
