Transparentes

“I feel within myself the innocence and silence of others,” Clarice Lispector said. Through this apparent calm unfold the seventeen stories (it is no coincidence that this number is prime) gathered here, a kind of necessary anthology of some that have been forgotten and scattered, veiled, impossible to find, impossible to share. Of characters condemned to a certain inner exile, to solitudes never desired, involuntary, and befallen without any reason. But also, at times, beautiful in their nostalgia or melancholy. Always vulnerable. Someone has to give them a voice: resignation is not an option. We are their characters. Literature, in any case, committed and necessary in every sense: committed to humankind, to its condition of the destitute and dispossessed, and to society, with the critical denunciation of its most common vices and its most notorious corruptions and violence; but also with writing itself, with its formal renewal. A selection of the most outstanding stories from the author's surprisingly poetic and carefully crafted work.