Cecília Meireles, modern
discoverer
| Cecília
Meireles is the girl from Olhinhos de Gato, created, in
tenderness, by her Azorian grandmother. The mystic navigator of a Mar
Absoluto, responsible for the first children’s public library in
Brazil, the painstaking author who, after ten years of research, united
myth and history in O Romanceiro da Inconfidência and who left
for publication the Crônica Trovada da Cidade de San Sebastian do Rio
de Janeiro no quarto centenário de sua fundação pelo Capitão Mor Estácio
de Sáa, she was the daring re-creator of traditional forms in
poetry, the cultivator of mysteries of distant India. Modern in her own way, the greatest woman-poet in Brazilian literature, teacher and pioneer of the New School, she also published for children and theorized about children’s literature in her book Problemas de Literatura Infantil. To understand Cecilia as a discoverer in search of a better future, a marine map’s central co-ordinate would be the construction of an image of childhood as a continent to be discovered, and as potential for a future and, who knows, conclusive discovery of Brazil. |
