My rating: 4/5
This is a really hard book to review, let alone rate, as it’s not like anything else I’ve come across. I was told it’s a novella in flash, or at least a precurser to them (this was first published in 1973, in Portuguese) and it certainly fits that category more than anything else. It’s a sort of stream of consciousness letter written from a fictional ‘I’ to a fictional ‘you’. It’s sort of a love letter, sort of an exploration of art, of language, time, phsyicality… and more! The text is hypnotic, echoing under your skin as you read, sparking with ideas and rippling with supressed sexuality. It’s a deep well of ideas that will be worth dipping into again and again.
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