A Escrava Isaura 5.100 · 5.100

The grief goes physical — 'comprimindo o coração, que parecia querer-lhe estalar de dor'. She clutches her chest as though to hold the heart together. Guimarães renders emotional agony as bodily emergency: the wound the words made 'no amago do coração' now threatens to split the organ itself.

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