What the house created

Book winner of the 2021 Sesc Literature Award in the Short Story category.

What the house has created is a book about wonder. All sixteen of its short stories, including the one that gives the volume its title, deal in some way with the possibility of encountering the unusual at any moment, around the corner or opening a door. The stories in this collection, developed by the author over the past ten years, avoid "cemented certainties" and present a touch of fantastic realism.

Discussing the fragility of reality and our comfortable concept of reality, What the House Created reflects on how the breakdown of this normality affects people, places, and things. According to writer Heloisa Prieto, who wrote the blurb: "Following the tradition of Machado de Assis, through the ambiguous complexity of his characters, and of Guimarães Rosa, as a mythical narrator between worlds, Diogo Monteiro enters the scene to occupy the seat of honor among the great storytellers."

And, in the words of another writer, Ivana Arruda Leite: “Diogo Monteiro presents himself as an author worthy of standing alongside the best names in contemporary Brazilian literature.”