Marcelo Labes and the reckoning with the past in Memória do Chão
Luciana Hoppe interviews writer Marcelo Labes about her new novel, Memória do Chão (Companhia das Letras). In this conversation, Labes discusses her childhood, education, life in Blumenau, and the experiences that shaped her career—among them, her time at a boarding school in southern Brazil, which inspired the book.
With a deeply sensitive, autofictional tone, Memória do Chão revisits the pains and discoveries of adolescence, reflecting on the people and events that shape who we are—and on the reckoning that, sooner or later, we all need to make with the past.
📖 A conversation about memory, literature, and the transformative power of writing.
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