The difference between story and tale is given by a subtle difference in intention. The story can be more or less a flat story, the story, however, whether in its infantile or mature version, always seeks to disguise reality, offer morals, fantasize about what it is not. The story tells, the story transforms. And he knows a lot about that Marcelo lillo, according to this fantastic storybook.
These days, adult storybooks have an aftertaste of hopelessness. The individual falls apart in a happy world huxley type. There is no more to see all these novelties in story books, where the gray tone of depersonalization and alienation runs through so many souls inhabiting stories and tales.
But going back to the transformative power of the story, the characters in this book From time to time, like everyone elseThey have the power to decide not to be, to take the alternative of fictionalizing their lives to reach gigantic levels of humanity. Sadness, apathy, rebellion, heartbreak or despair can always find in a story a black worm hole in which to enjoy a parallel world. They can do it occasionally or permanently, between the madness and the lucidity of the one who has discovered the cardboard of reality ...
From time to time it is good to immerse yourself in the existentialism of nothingness, in the fantasy of the child who has grown up to discover that he would like to remain a child. This selection of stories invites you to do so. All are born from the harshness and nevertheless end up sharing moments of glory unattainable for all those other happy beings who observe them between indifference and mercy.
Life is a story more than a dream. And in the dreams of these characters we can find our story. In fact, the fact of empathizing with each and every one of them means that, in a certain way, we are as losers as they are, we just have to assume it and resume our lives with vulnerability well at hand, in our jacket pocket, From where we get our splendid lies
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