A realidade devia ser proibida
Reality Should Be Forbidden
by Maria Clara Drummond
Companhia das Letras, 2015
112 pages
14×21 cm
In this novel, Maria Clara Drummond turns an acid, but compassionate eye upon the new young Brazilian elite.
The dilemmas Eva faces in her life might seem like those any other rich girl might have to deal with. She is subject to the same social pressures and sacrifices: she worries about her eternally bushy hair, so much that she never gets it wet when she goes into the water.
Her friends are intelligent and well off. They are filmmakers, entrepreneurs, gallery owners and people from the fashion world. Seen from the outside, her life can be resumed to outings at posh Japanese restaurants in fancy neighborhoods of São Paulo, and parties with French DJ’s and large quantities of MDMA.
However, the author Maria Clara Drummond will craftily deconstruct everything that is obvious and pedestrian about Eva’s life. Much like the actor who is cognizant of the lie he enacts on the stage, the main character will bring out the role of each of the parts of this social machinery. Her friend’s father whose involvement in a contracting scandal lands him on the covers of magazines for example, or the two friends who meet because both their mothers write fashion blogs.
A less compassionate eye might see only superficiality, but what is revealed in this story is an intimate and sincere picture of a generation. Narrated in a cinematographic-like manner and with hues reminiscent of TV series like, Girls by Lena Dunhan, Reality Should Be Forbidden provides a glimpse of an era that is so hard to define.
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Maria Clara Drummond (1986) is a Brazilian writer and journalist. In 2013 she published her first novel A festa é minha e eu choro se quiser (The Party is Mine and I Can Cry if I Want, Editora Guarda-Chuva). Her second novel, A realidade devia ser proibida (Reality Should Be Forbidden) was published by Companhia das Letras in 2015.
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