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- In his fictional and theoretical work, Josué Montello realized the cherished dream of adolescence. "I have the feeling that my life proceeded as if it were a good novel that I had invented," says the writer from Maranhão, surrounded by more than a hundred books with his own signature. The author of "Os tambores de São Luís" was Director of the National Library, President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Provost of the Federal University of Maranhão, professor of Brazilian Literature in Madrid, Lima and Lisbon, Ambassador and Counselor of the Embassy of Brazil in Paris. Montello usually attributes to the four hours of sleep the ability to manage several public activities and a literary work capable of producing more than three thousand characters. On the morning of April 16, 1994, in Rio de Janeiro, he interrupted for a few hours, on the typewriter, the text "Confessions of a Novelist," his personal testimony about literary creation. In the interview, reflects on the period in which he decided to write, romanesque experiences in Brazil, the conquest of a captive audience and the novel technique, a vital feature of his work in the opinion of experts.
- Josué Montello realizou, na sua obra ficcional e teórica, o sonho acalentado na adolescência. "Tenho a sensação de que a minha vida se processou como se constituísse um bom romance que eu tivesse inventado", afirma o escritor maranhense, cercado por mais de cem livros com sua assinatura. O autor de "Os tambores de São Luís" foi Diretor da Biblioteca Nacional, Presidente da Academia Brasileira de Letras, Reitor da Universidade Federal do Maranhão, professor de Literatura Brasileira em Madrid, Lima e Lisboa, Embaixador e Conselheiro da Embaixada do Brasil em Paris. Montello costuma atribuir às quatro horas diárias de sono a possibilidade de gerenciar diversas atividades públicas e uma obra literária capaz de produzir mais de três mil personagens. Na manhã do dia 16 de abril de 1994, no Rio de Janeiro, ele suspendeu por algumas horas, na máquina de escrever, o texto "Confissões de um romancista", depoimento pessoal sobre criação literária. Na entrevista, reflete sobre o período em que decidiu escrever, as experiências romanescas no Brasil, a conquista de um público cativo e a técnica do romance, característica vital de sua obra na opinião dos especialistas.
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"Josué Montello: a storyteller with more than 3,000 characters"
(1996).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/dc5h-1387
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …