The reader
My countryman Antonio Pereira I think one of the best writers of short stories that has given our recent literature (and, without any doubt, the most brilliant storyteller who have been lucky enough to hear), subtitled one of his several books, titled A both forced (by the script to which he was forced) arms of the Y with ambiguous and unorthodox definition of Twelve stories and a Brazilian novel . The stories were stories of thirty or forty pages, while the Brazilian novel call was a simple story taken from a newspaper in Sao Paulo and describing a mysterious incident in which women appeared committed to a general or a colonel and a lower-ranking military, but, it seems, more vitality, to which one or more unknown had shot while in the interior of a car in a field on the outskirts of the city. As suggested by Pereira, in this brief news story were contained all the elements of a novel, you only have to develop.
With permission from Pereira, give it to me, sure, from his grave in the cemetery of Villafranca del Bierzo, where he rests for a short time, again so original idea, replacing the word novel by fable, more in keeping with the spirit the story with which closes the book, to describe this collection of stories that comprises most of which I have written for years and whose title Such a passion for anything, more than one will surprise you. At a time like this, in which the windows of bookstores are full of self-help books and novels for entertainment, it might seem a mistake to lump persevere in nihilism, even that is a hallmark of personal poetic: The river of forgetfulness, In the middle of nowhere , In Bahia, No one listens ... The collection contains, in addition to the aforementioned tale (just seven lines counted wrong, but that extend indefinitely in time, hence its specific title: "The Day After Tomorrow"), twelve stories of all kinds, from the two letters in the manner of serialized melodrama - "Uncle Mario's Travels" and "A Tale of order" - both written for a newspaper, which are resolved in a few pages. Some were published before, even in book as "Djukic's penalty" (in an anthology, Tales of football, edited by the same house), but most are for the first time. Among them, of course, there are very different issues, including opposing intent and construction, but all share the same vision of life: a lot of passion ... for nothing.
A passion that is part of the art of writing and counting, which is linked to reading and thinking, and allows us to continue living, even though we know its uselessness. He
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