Carola Saavedra - Com armas sonolentas. Um romance de formação

Abstract

Carola Saavedra's book, Com armas sonolentas, Um romance de formação, published by the publishing company Companhia das Letras (2018), whose title is inspired by a verse by the Mexican poet and nun Juana Inés de la Cruz, dead in 1695, a key artist for feminism and Latin American literature, narrates the experience of three women, who are interrelated by their genealogies, however, they have very different life histories and identities, marked by a constant sense of incompleteness. Saavedra's work is a milestone about deep, strong and dreamy women who, at the same time, do not understand their places in the world.