Mia Couto is one of the most important Portuguese language writers currently in activity. Not only is he such an expert on the Portuguese language that he is able to make up words that have sense only in the context he uses them (usually by mixing two or three previously existing words), but also...
But be more careful of the goat that lives in the lion’s den. —AFRICAN PROVERB Ever since the hunter arrived, the days have gone by, dense but empty like the clouds in winter. During this whole time, I have remained shut away, a prisoner in my own home, peeping out at the failed preparations for ...
Pilgrim of myself, I have gone to her, she who sleeps in a country blown by the wind. Alejandra Pizarnik The truth is sad when it is only one. Sadder still when its ugliness doesn’t have, like Zachary’s aerogrammes, the remedy of a lie. At that particular moment in Jezoosalem, the truth was that ...
