THE LONG STORY

The Long Story "is a journey—without academic commitment—through the medieval European imagination. Its theme, like that of so many others, is the search for something especially sacred or valuable. Only here, the something sought is nothing as sacred as the Holy Grail, nor as valuable as Solomon's Mines or Treasure Island. But what could be more sacred and valuable, as an object of search, from the perspective of literature itself, than a story?" In Reinaldo Santos Neves's The Long Story, despite all its fascinating characters, the protagonist is undoubtedly the Long Story itself, with all it represents: the fascination that literature has exerted on us all since humankind began to invent stories. It is a work about readings and readers, written by reader for reader.