The Manual of Affections

In all stories there are people, with an inside and an outside, situated in time and space, carrying meanings capable of elevating them to the category of feelings, emotions, and affections. Each is an endless possibility of acting and reacting, understanding what happens, and, with that understanding, going beyond or falling short of what happened. Friendship, love, closeness, distance, contiguity or proximity, everything comes together without getting confused in a story of encounters and tangencies that can bring together or push apart, and that bring together and push apart according to the choices of those called to choose. At a banquet of affections served at a table in the shape of life, Spinoza, characters and readers sit together, crossing a time of promises and pandemic, each with their own events, the written ones and those that are being written and remembered as they are read. And in the end, the menu of this banquet, made of people and adventures that can only be accessed after the meal and the reading are finished, is the manual of affections of those who were commensals.

Work Details:

• Author: Manuel Capelo
• Publisher: Almedina
• Number of Pages: 398