General Spoils Box

Starting with a title that plays with Caixa Geral de Depósitos - a name that, for a banking institution, could serve as an allegory for an entire country - José Jorge Letria presents us with a collection of fictions that, in the best tradition of Borges, the Borges of Ficciones, propose a version of reality, or, if you will, versions of the world, in the well-known sense of Nelson Goodman. (…) José Jorge Letria, in this box containing human stories, offers us an instigating exercise of the imagination: from the bookseller entangled in his paradox (also a writer who refuses to be known), not forgetting the satirised politician named Noah, who founders in the boat of immoderate ambition, to the narrator who struggles with the snakes and rats of a house under construction, what we have is the construction of a book of short stories that emerge from what could well be the vortex of a dream. Short stories that are textualisations of the fictions dreamt by a writer named José Jorge Letria. Better yet: short stories born from a certain certainty.

Work Details:

• Author: José Jorge Letria
• Publisher: Glaciar
• Number of Pages: 238