{"product_id":"adoecer","title":"Sweeten","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“There was in her something like a flaw that perhaps came from exhaustion and malnutrition, giving her a furtive, gazelle-like air that made the presentations fall away.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLizzie went behind the abandoned door that served as a screen and returned dressed as a boy. She had gathered her hair at the nape of her neck. She showed her legs, and this produced a curious asexual effect. Gabriel stepped forward and began to attend to the missing figure, not on the sketch papers, but on the canvas. The male figures were already very advanced. He had posed for the fool. The Pre-Raphaelites created situations of mutual assistance in which there was, alongside exhibition, sincerity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeverell and Millais cooled, standing still and losing enthusiasm. They saw in Lizzie the thin girl with irregular features whom they had not seen until then. Walter’s narrative, which had overwhelmed the narrator himself, ceased to exert its influence, and the temperature of their bodies suffered. They rubbed their arms, realizing the full ruthlessness of Winter. They watched Rossetti and Miss Sid, who were alone in what was perhaps the painter’s meeting with the model. Yet they felt discomfort, as if they were witnessing an intimate scene.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLizzie, who had held the position without wavering in the previous days, arched her back, leaning toward the ground. It was a powerful slump beneath which there circulated some glory. John Everett Millais understood the origin of Miss Sid’s fascination. She had a body sealed in tragedy, a sacrificial appetite. “I shall paint this woman,” he thought. He imagined her in a setting of daffodils. He did not know that he was looking at her dead. »\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt would be good if the Camões Prize, awarded to her in 2015, helped draw attention to the work of Hélia Correia, an author averse to the spotlight and one of the great voices of contemporary Portuguese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHélia Correia (1949)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a contemporary Portuguese writer. She holds a degree in Romance Philology and is a secondary school Portuguese teacher. Despite her taste for poetry, she is recognized as a fiction writer and one of the revelations of the Portuguese novella generation of the 1980s, although her short stories, novellas, or novels are always imbued with poetic discourse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relógio D'Água","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52332149309706,"sku":"2026-MDT-LVR-31","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/9789896411602.webp?v=1767100562","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/products\/adoecer","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}