Ilse Pollack - Entre Dois Mundos

"Ilse Pollack's diaries were written between 1979 and 1984 and remained unpublished until now. It is not an intimate diary; its subject matter is, above all, a social reality, in its material and mental aspects. Reading them takes us to the fervor, enthusiasm, and setbacks of the years that followed April 25th, the subsequent entries denoting the political inflections that, little by little, established a new order that stifled many of the dreams of the Revolution. Ilse Pollack travels the country province by province, observes, meditates, talks to people, visits places, gathers information, and writes. The research in which the author undertook translates into true fieldwork, but full of life, color, and conclusions that reveal a mastery in observation, in the organization of data (with detailed and intense descriptions), in strongly visual narratives and enormous plasticity (underlined by the photographs attached to the text, taken by the author)." "Its enormous literary quality is obvious, as is its value as a human document and sociological and anthropological reflection with enormous relevance today, despite being written more than forty years ago."
José Manuel de Vasconcelos, from the Preface