Four Cold Chapters on the Possibility of Literature Brazil intended for both the general

intended for both the general reader and the scholar

literary references both real and invented

whose presence both haunts and gives meaning to every page

and lovers who have disappeared

Four Cold Chapters on the Possibility of Literature Brazil intended for both the generalWhat can be said about the silence that precedes a poem or story? What myths have been invented to explain the transition from "nothing" to work of art? And when did the "account of composition" turn into a literary genre of its own? These questions are at the heart of Pablo M. Ruiz's excursion into the center(s) of literary creativity. What can be said about the silence that precedes a poem or story? What myths have been invented to explain the