Mar me quer, de Mia Couto, entre as literaturas do insólito e juvenil

Abstract

Mar me quer is a narrative written by Mia Couto, a Mozambican writer. The book s edition, available for purchase, measures 24.5 cm high by 17.3 cm wide; Its hardcover has a vibrant green background with colorful illustration, eight drawings made by Nasi John Pereira along its eight chapters; sixty-eight pages in total - considering, among them, the illustrative pages and blank ones- which fall in the midst of the literature aimed at children and adolescents. To its concealing format, one should join the manifestation of the fantasized sort of reality, in terms of fictional discourse - at various times and in different categories of narrative: action, characters, places and times of the fictional unusual trait which destabilizes the realistic mimesis, committed to empirical reality, the common sense. By highlighting this fantastic aspect of the narrative, the writer manages to situate his work in the universe - already foreshadowed - of the child and juvenile literature, as well as within the literary strands of the fantastic -in the broadest sense. A journey through the story of Zeca Perpétuo and Luarmina, central characters of the narrative, leads to a walk through the seas of these literatures in which the unusual bursts, leading readers to the emerging tensions of a world filled with myths, legends and beliefs of this telluric land in Africa, Mozambique