The Book of Emotions General the account of poet-aspirant Brigge

the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches

“An original and challenging short novel

Interweaving flashes of the horrific Jeju Uprising and the Korean War with pleasant family anecdotes

reminiscent of writers as disparate as Laura Riding and Peter Handke

and considered one of the most groundbreaking and significant novels written in Catalan

The Book of Emotions General the account of poet-aspirant BriggeIn a future Brazil, a blind photographer considers a sequence of his old photographs . . . [continued] A blind photographer envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera." But without camera or lens, his instruments of optic prosody, he must reconstruct experience as a series of affective snapshots. The result, then, is not the description of a remembered image, but of the emotional memory the image evokes.