AND HOW HAVE YOU BEEN? Maria Judite de Carvalho Review
If the title of this book by Maria Judite de Carvalho calls for an answer, it has to be, ‘As a woman, I’ve been frustrated, puzzled by the way life passes me by, with no-one, especially my husband, able to understand or love me’. Time and…
If the title of this book by Maria Judite de Carvalho calls for an answer, it has to be, ‘As a woman, I’ve been frustrated, puzzled by the way life passes me by, with no-one, especially my husband, able to understand or love me’. Time and again in these short stories (some 450 pages of them!) selected from the author’s later works, the female protagonists find life a puzzle that disappoints them in ways that are not so much cataclysmic as simply impenetrable. Carvalho was one of the most prominent female authors in Portugal during the middle and late twentieth century.
