There is a voice here that rises up against the constraints of the literary process itself, breaking with the conventional forms imposed on writing. The diary presents itself as an unusual linguistic experiment, giving the prose the dizzying tempo of magical realism and surrealist imagery.

MARIA HELOÍSA MARTINS DIAS, LETRAS & LETRAS

Os Guarda-Chuvas Cintilantes is Teolinda Gersão’s most revolutionary work.

ÁLVARO CARDOSO GOMES, A VOZ ITINERANTE, São Paulo

The symbolic dimension oscillates between a playful and a fantastic register, but it also extends into the supernatural realm of things and beings. Crossing the borders of apparently incommunicable mental territories is an operation constantly carried out in this book.

MARIA ALZIRA SEIXO, A PALAVRA DO ROMANCE

In T.G.’s work, heterodoxy reveals itself as heterogeneity – as a conscious and playful deviation from the traditional genre of the diary.

RAINER HESS, DER PORTUGIESISCHE ROMAN DER GEGENWART

A parody of the diary genre.

GESA HASEBRINK, WEGE DER ERNEUERUNG – PORTUGIESISCHE ROMANE NACH DER “NELKENREVOLUTION”

Um diário heterodoxo, provocador e surpreendente.