O sexo inútil
(Useless sex) Book not yet available in English
Summary:
This is a book about the deepest part of the human condition. About the right to become, before ourselves and others, what we are. Fully and without compromise. For many readers, these pages will be a revelation, both brutal and moving, full of suffering, but also bearing gestures and testimonies that nourish and strengthen hope. It is, as we would say in the Age of Enlightenment, a valuable contribution to the emancipation of the human spirit, to pushing the boundaries of demanding, caring and civilised relationships between people, whatever their sexual orientation and gender. Ana Zanatti knows that each of us has to be up to the adventure of our own lives, which only we can lead, but she also knows that it is part of our human condition to be open to others, to solidarity, to confiding in others and to helping each other. This book also celebrates the enormous ethical and civic courage of its author. Her confidence in the power of justice, which flows from the inner source of a person’s balance with themselves, with others and with the world. At one point in this book, Ana Zanatti writes that her ambition would be to be able to touch the souls of others. I’m sure that this has been fully achieved. This work will have a profound impact on many people. It will bring them light, comfort and energy. It will change many lives. Perhaps it will even help to save lives which, without your invigorating help, could be irreversibly lost.
Edited by: Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva
Comment:
PRESS REVIEWS Useless Sex, by Ana Zanatti (Sextant), is not a “literary revelation”. It is pure combat, enumeration of silences and prejudices, history of fears and loves. It is worth reading. Against banality. Francisco José Viegas This book affirms once again the coherence of Ana Zanatti. Once again Ana talks about real people, in her real life. And the themes that make people’s lives real. Now in the form of a non-fictional account, an essay. Ana Zanatti had already shown that she is not afraid to take up topics considered difficult. Always with sensitivity, elegance, balance, dignity. And that he was able to do it in a pioneering way. Tearing paths, opening doors. São José Almeida In this book, more than a book, Ana Zanatti, speaking of herself, speaks of us, challenges us in the challenge of being the other, assumes the first person as the word of identity against the word “them”, the one that expels and condemns. The authenticity and courage of this writing is the authenticity and courage that they should deserve, that should demand, beyond the law, all LGBT people, people from the city, who the author knows are marginalized, still immersed in the suffering that her every word denounces. Reading this book is a lesson in vigilance. After all, those who do not understand it will be those who decide to stay out of humanity in its noblest sense. Isabel Moreira