O Mendigo que Sabia de Cor os Adágios de Erasmo de Rotterdam
“The Beggar Who Knew Erasmus of Rotterdam's Adages by Heart” (title translated by AI)
Evandro Affonso Ferreira (born 1945)
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Ten years ago a woman left a well-read man with a two-word note, and he walked out into the streets of a big city, where he has lived as a beggar ever since, sure that one day she will return. He never gives her name, only its first letter, N, which he scrawls on walls and on his own skin. In one unbroken stream of talk addressed to an unnamed listener he describes the street people around him, among them a woman who hides in a cardboard box and a boy still hopeful of a better life, recalls the past, and keeps quoting a small book of Latin sayings by Erasmus that never leaves his side. As he wanders and waits, doubt creeps in, and he fights to keep hold of his reason.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 128 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Brazil
- First published
- 2012 by Record
- Author's age
- 67 when first published
- ISBN
9788501096418 (original)