Words gained form and purpose with the launch of "The Journey of Knowledge: A World of Small Stories and Great Life Lessons," the inaugural book by José Muagona.
The work discusses the place of reading in the ethical and intellectual formation of society.
Muagona hopes the book will be an educational tool, capable of inspiring behavioral changes and strengthening critical thinking and a love of literature.
He said the work is born with a public vocation, destined to serve as a tool for awareness.
Speaking about the work, the writer João Batista Caetano Gomes did not mince words in characterizing the author as an archetype of the reader that society lacks.
"If we are honest, the initial blame falls on the parents, who, being the first teachers, do not offer ethics classes, do not buy books, nor cultivate the habit of reading in their children," he said.
The speech sounded like a warning. Gomes reminded that children inherit, above all, gestures. That is, parents who read build bridges to possible worlds; Absent parents in the literary world reproduce silences.
“An act becomes a habit when it becomes a trend for those who observe us,” he noted, emphasizing the crucial role of the family in the formation of readers.
Among the lessons that emerge from the book, the urgency of Muagona's call is condensed, rejecting reading as a mere school exercise and placing it as an act of individual and collective emancipation.
(By Rafael Langa)
