I am not sure if this will be interesting: during the last years I have been writing on weekly basis essays on various topics, but mostly about literature for the site of the Cultural Institute where I work. While most of the topics are meant for the Brazilian culture, some of the topics are fairly universal. It was not just part of my work, but ( Read more... )

Working is really something bad, as if I din't knew it beforehand.

Anyways, I suspect that I would like to try out, if I had time, to a "co-writing" with someone. No experience I had lived for long and I am curious about criticism and techniques. As if those things are important.

So, I have read all the pages of Finnegans Wake at least once. Today it happened. I won't say that I finished it because it does not make any sense ( Read more... )

I wonder how. I get bored even to write this part because it is boring. Blame me ( Read more... )

Another day I participated on a discussion about the meaning behind Voltaire’s Candide. The reader came then with a conclusion that much puzzled me: Voltaire wanted to say: Ignorance is a Bliss ( Read more... )

The next attempts are still in some way related to cinema. Both are the real first time I tried to expose my work, both texts are destined to a prize promoted by Playboy Magazine. I had several problems to edit the texts to fit in the size limitation imposed by Playboy, which led me to a radical view against accepting editorial interference in my ( Read more... )

Some experiences are more relevant than others when reading a book. What I refer here is not the fact we can enjoy several different books because of the appeasing quality of such books. Those books, while having a quality, have this effect more because they follow a formula with great efficiency, a formula devised and developed to produce several ( Read more... )

The very thought of this monograph contest turned my mind to another aspect of my writing: I write very quickly. That monograph, with thirteen pages, was written in one evening. I must note that there is no importance how fast a text is produced. This trait is only of any relevance if the text produced is satisfactory to someone else than the ( Read more... )

The first experience I can recall that I actively pursued the goal of producing a finished story was motivated by the acquisition of technology. When I was younger I was bestowed with the old typing machine of my grandfather; a part of the name's heritage. That typing machine was very heavy and also lacked one of the keys (if I recall correctly a " ( Read more... )

Beautfull leather cover with golden details "Complete Works of Lewis Carroll" (The funny thing is that a Selected Works of Him, meaning with less works and in a worst edition in portuguese costed more than this english version, so, not only I have a prettier book (:P) but I also have it in the original english - considering Carroll craft with ( Read more... )