O Carlos estava na Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett com a filha, que se entretinha a brincar. Enquanto isso, ele lia — ou melhor, relia — um livro que tinha trazido consigo de casa. Era uma edição antiga de "Servidão Humana", romance de natureza autobiográfica publicado pela Livros do Brasil. Esta releitura aconteceu por acaso, quando passou pela estante lá de casa e se deparou com o livro. Sem pensar duas vezes, pegou nele e deixou de parte um outro, que lia na altura. Aliás, esqueceu-se de tal maneira desse outro livro que foi incapaz de me dizer o seu título ou sobre o que versava. Quando conversámos, o Carlos estava quase a acabar este maravilhoso romance de Somerset Maugham (que tanto marcou o meu percurso como leitora), um autor que considera um mestre na caracterização humana.
Carlos was at Almeida Garrett Municipal Library with is daughter that entertained herself playing. Meantime, he was reading — better yet, rereading — a book he had brought from home. It was an old edition of "Of Human Bondage", an autobiographic novel published by Livros do Brasil.* This rereading happened by accident, when he walked by his bookcase in his house and encountered the book. Without second thoughts, he grabbed it and left another one he was reading at the time. In fact, he forgot that other book in such a way that he was incapable of telling me its title or what the book was about. When we talked, Carlos was almost finishing this wonderful novel of Somerset Maugham (that marked me so much as a reader), an author he consideres a master in human characterization.
*Livros do Brasil is a portuguese publishing house
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Carlos was at Almeida Garrett Municipal Library with is daughter that entertained herself playing. Meantime, he was reading — better yet, rereading — a book he had brought from home. It was an old edition of "Of Human Bondage", an autobiographic novel published by Livros do Brasil.* This rereading happened by accident, when he walked by his bookcase in his house and encountered the book. Without second thoughts, he grabbed it and left another one he was reading at the time. In fact, he forgot that other book in such a way that he was incapable of telling me its title or what the book was about. When we talked, Carlos was almost finishing this wonderful novel of Somerset Maugham (that marked me so much as a reader), an author he consideres a master in human characterization.
*Livros do Brasil is a portuguese publishing house
Translated by Marisa Silva
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