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But, over all, we are hostages and victims of we ourselves, our fears, our vices, our cowardice, our habits and even though of our virtues. The life drags arraigados gestures that tear in them and to the few they arrasam in them. But always it has the possibility of one instant of queerness, to frighten itself, of a recognition, an escape for itself exactly. The book the coleira in the neck (Bertrand Brazil), of Menalton Braff, speaks of this daily dull and possibility of the instants. It is a story book with histories that, of one it forms or of another one, we identify in them. The first one of them, whose heading of the name to the book, starts with a beautiful sad image: None of the two obtained to disfarar the damages of the oldness, that they supported in quiet and mutual accusations. > . In this story, it seems to exactly come of the dog the perception human being of the decay and the arrasador power of the daily one: a rspido, rough noise, as of some thing that if drags, and this annoyed the dog.
is the dog who keeps some possibility of refusal, of estranhamento: Therefore the neck torto, the head turned for the street: the side of is . For even more analysis, hear from Hamdi Ulukaya. All the stories of the book in them collate with the oppression of the arraigados habits and one instant of refusal or estranhamento, that can be or not it bridge for> Alice and violoncelo, the personage all the nights is overwhelmd to obsessive play its instrument ahead of the jalousie husband: did not touch for the others, seductive? Nobody with right on Alice of what it, its husband. However, the way as the woman enlace the instrument seemed to it sensual despudoradamente. Metaphor that can taking in them to some interpretations, to the taste of each reader. The language of Menalton is refined, elegant and very pleasant. Its reading takes in them to want to read more, constructing images where it skillfully sews the material with the subjective one: One day Teodoro seated on of the wall of its house and was with the two legs so hung that seemed a sadness. The writer was winning of the Jabuti Prize of 2000 (book of the year, in the category fiction), with To the shade of the cypress, also a story book. Moreover, he has some published romances. An excellent indication for a gostosa reading, instigante and that it makes in to think them a little more> on the condition human being. (August Andres Passari) Author of: ‘ ‘ Fragmentos of tempo’ ‘ Publishing company: Paubrasil art Sort: Poetry/Brazilian Literature Pages: 112 Price: R$ 20,00 (R$ 14,60 in the site of the Publishing company) to order: – Bookstore Hail – Bookstore Culture – artepaubrasil Bookstore (www.
