Died Maria Isabel Barreno, one of the “Three Marias” – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

The researcher and writer Maria Isabel Barreno, who was one of the “Three Marias” with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, died Saturday at age 77. The news was released by the Express , without citing sources, and confirmed the PUBLIC by a friend. The cremation ceremony is scheduled for this Sunday at 17h, in the cemetery of Groves.

Despite his previous work, it was with New Portuguese Letters, who wrote six hands with with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa in 1972 that Maria Isabel Barreno has become an unavoidable name of Portuguese literature. The book, accused of pornography and pursued by the New State, would be central to the process known as the “Three Marias”. The trial lasted two years and was closely followed by the international press. The conclusion of the case had already occurred after the Revolution of April 25, 1974 and the three writers were acquitted.

“In the new letters that the three Marias wrote anonymously, several voices speak of the condition of women, their submission to patriarchal, bourgeois order, domestic violence and gender, abortion, rape, incest, poverty, censorship, and female sexual expression, “wrote pUBLIC in 2010, the purpose of the work reissue in Portugal.

New Portuguese Letters acquired treaty status on the rights of women in Portugal, but eventually spill that initial intention. “It is an indictment against all forms of oppression,” said Publico writer Ana Luisa Amaral, author of the notes to the work in the 2010 reissue.

From the feminist point of view, Maria Isabel Barreno has a another reference work:. the Death of the Mother Written during the 1970s, the book came to be published only in 1989. It is an important sociological and philosophical study of the historical evolution of women’s status in society. The editor path, Zeferino Coelho, believes it is the best writer, deserving “appear in a library of the twentieth century,” said Publico. It is an “extensive and very smart book on the status of women”, where Maria Isabel Barreno is “a review of the whole issue of women with great intelligence” and “a writing that serves this intelligence.” that’s what most impressed the editor who published it, though it was his first edition.

Maria Isabel Barreno was born in Lisbon in 1939. the reading was, as I said, an early passion, motivated by a disease for six years. He began writing poems, never published. He graduated in History and Philosophy Sciences at the Faculty of Arts University of Lisbon, he worked at the National Institute of Industrial Research, was a journalist and adviser in the cultural area of ​​the Portuguese embassy in Paris, closing functions with the Barroso Government.

your work will Sociology (published Adaptation of Rural Origin Worker Half the Urban Industrial in 1966; He was co-author of The Portuguese Status of Women in 1968) the novel and the short story and extends over 20 titles. At night the trees are black , 1968, was the first novel, followed by The Other Superiors Legit . Your storybook The Senses Unusual (1993) received the Grand Prix of Camilo Castelo Branco Tale and the award of the Pen Club; two years earlier, the novel Report Time won the prize Fernando Namora.

Maria Isabel Barreno published his last novel in 2009: Wind Voices , about the history of the ancestors of their father in Cape Verde.