Ursula

Ursula

Dear reader, the book I here present to you is humble, insignificant, and will certainly meet with the cold indifference of some and the mocking scorn of others. Yet, I bring it to light, blinded neither by the illusion of becoming famous, nor by the pride of being an author. I know this novel is worth little because it was written by a woman – a Brazilian woman, moreover, with little education, and without the refinement and experience of illustrious men used to discussing, advising, and correcting others. This woman has had very little instruction, knows only her mother tongue, and isn’t well read. In sum, her intellectual capacity is practically null.





Books by Maria Firmina dos Reis in Black Latin American Writers in Translation

Ursula
Maria Firmina dos Reis