English

The hopes and dismay of a modernist dream, seen through the work of a Belgian-born journalist who embraced Brazil.

The weak response to this pandemic is the result of years of weak responses to health problems as a whole. As in the past, the absence of leadership by government, added to xenophobia, misinformation, panic, disorder and chaos, deepens the current crisis in public health.

“Through literature we can learn to perceive the other, not scientifically as we would treat an object of study, but as a desire for otherness that renews the world and humanizes our differences.”