Supplication
Now that the silence is a sea without waves,
And that it can navigate without direction,
Do not answer
To urgent questions
I made you.
Let me be happy
Thus,
Already so far from you as me.
You lose life to desire it so much.
We only knew suffer, while
Our love
Lasted.
But time passed,
There is calm ...
Not disturb the peace given to me.
Hear your voice again would be
Quench their thirst with salt water.
The Poetry Day was yesterday, but anyway I want to honor the writer, essayist and poet of Coimbra, Miguel Torga. Through his book is maybe one of its most humble novel, the new tales of the mountain.
The writing of Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Costa, has always had a strong emotional charge. New Tales of the Mountain are proof of this. This book portrays the daily lives of the people, the lost souls as he calls them, of the Portugal of the mountaineer described by the author, born deep in the North, which never forgets its origins. Do not expect this book to be a literary epic, read with respect and understanding, because as the writer himself says in the preface, explaining that he felt the need to portray this world of the smountain and I quote: "I promised that because I felt humiliated by so much dirt and misery, and ashamed to represent the thankless role of a chronicler of the world that can not read me. "
The rural world that it describes in this book, is the country of 60 years, poor, isolated and iliterate that both moved and saddened at the same time the writer. How can we read this book? How we wish, we can open it in any of the stories and delight us with the simple characters who parade through the writing of Miguel Torga. This is a readable and accessible to the reader and a classic of Portuguese literature, often overlooked, but that does not stop the thrill and the delicacy while crudely describes his brothers mountaineers. I highlight three of the characters I like best, Mariana, Pastor Gabriel and Alma Grid, each of these stories describes the people who lived in the mountains and their way of life being dominated and so dependent of nature, their animals and their beliefs. Far from everything, power, politics and told them that nothing, in a world where the church dominated, because the day-to-day was a constant grind for survival. Hope you enjoy and always ... read again and again. Good reading
