quick fiction - Daniil Kharms

é o nome de uma revista (e a aceitar textos com menos de 500 palavras), mas também vai por short prose, ou short short stories. No extremo os microcontos, mas fico pela tal quick fiction. Um que leva a outro, lá dei com o mais do que fantástico Daniil Kharms. A história da vida é impressionante. A ficção, rapidíssima, para ler. Pertencente à nova categoria se-eu-tivesse-um-PC-teria-sido-um-bloguer. Assim, foi apenas mais uma vítima - brilhante - do regime stalinista.

Blue Notebook no. 2
Daniil Kharms

Once there was a redheaded man without eyes and without ears. He had no hair either, so that he was a redhead was just something they said.

He could not speak, for he had no mouth. He had no nose either.

He didn't even have arms or legs. He had no stomach either, and he had no back, and he had no spine, and no intestines of any kind. He didn't have anything at all. So it is hard to understand whom we are really talking about.

So it is probably best not to talk about him any more.

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Here, a lot more to read. Isto tudo porque passei na Fnac de Coimbra um dia destes e vi... isto. Procurava, numa daquelas missões-desculpa, um livro que valesse mesmo a pena por menos de cinco euros. Falhei. Mas, a ler, a ler, a ler: esta review.