Saturday, December 27, 2008

a course on silence (1)

VIII. under her veil


I very intimately think to those who read __________ the legentes, I desire.

I expose ourselves.

Yet, if you who think do not offer your body,
what will you think?

(translated from Maria Gabriela Llansol, Amigo e Amiga: Curso de silĂȘncio de 2004. Lisbon: AssĂ­rio & Alvim, 2005).

1 comment:

Vitor Oliveira Jorge said...

Llansol is a genius (for me she is alive, ever) and this book probably her best work, although I do not know her other works as much as I should...
she was also a fantastic person. Llansol is probably the best Portuguese writer of our time. Absolutely surprising!Nothing to do with mainstream literature.
V.