The Book of Parables, by Olov Enquist

Who has not lived a forbidden love?

Without loving the impossible, the forbidden or even the reprehensible (always in view of others), you can probably never say that you have loved or lived, or both.

Olov Enquist makes a more than probable gesture of honesty with himself. A recognition of romantic love (in the spiritual and in the physical. Or from the physical towards the spiritual) The love that was between the mature woman and the adolescent could have been considered at the time as an embarrassing, immoral or reprehensible encounter.

But in the case of the adolescent, supposing that he was who Olov Enquist has become, he has surely proliferated in great pages of world literature. Are we then in debt to adultery or promiscuity or whatever there is really in that first love as a subject of study between teacher and student?

There are undoubtedly autobiographical overtones in the pages of this book. The author himself acknowledges it. At the same time that it recognizes a kind of creative debt. The sensation of a love learned between the arms and legs that another sheltered him could be the most fruitful of his creative roots.

Live then the unexpected love, the one that hides to become universal, the one that awakens the creativity of the forbidden.

To be honest with himself, the author has wanted to write what until now was drawn in the lines of his destiny and his soul.

Anyone who has not loved the impossible should not read this book. Everyone else, including you, cannot miss this opportunity.

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