The Centaur in the Garden
Moacyr Scliar
1980
A House in the Teresópolis Neighborhood, Pôrto Alegre 1947–1953
Psychoanalysis, dialectic materialism, nothing; laws of supply and demand, nothing, nothing; fiction, nothing. Nothing seemed applicable to my case. I was a centaur, irremediably a centaur. And without any plausible explanation.
“We are fortunate to live in Brazil,” my father used to…
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