In a blend of classical literary references and contemporary narrative experimentation already characteristic of Evandro Affonso Ferreira's poetic prose, Rei Revés reveals the tragedy of an imprisoned ruler who suffers the loss of a son.
From Leo Lama's text for the book's blurb: "Before your eyes, reader, a volume that shamelessly invades the mythical. [...] In these pages, evoked as judges, masters, witnesses to the apex of human pain, are the tragedians mingled with the gods, the people, the angels, the birds. There is no respite. There is no permission for the banal. Tragedy is relentless and is there to purge, not to weave the ephemeral spindles of the psychological, the mundane. The chorus is the narrative itself, investigating and contradicting itself, affirming perplexity. The narrator suffers, unable to find a way to tell the story. Everything flaunts the end in a journey that cannot be completed.
" King Revés ," by Evandro Affonso Ferreira, is a book that traverses the pressing tragic. Something that exists for everyone, without distinction. There are no sides, parties, ideologies, or biographical concerns. In these scores, the suffering of an imprisoned ruler, who has just lost his son's son, is a subject of anguished inspiration, and goes far beyond political or factual interest. There, in the metaphysical fluttering of the pennant, where only the anuns penetrate, lies the rhythm of this catastrophe.
"In an intimate setting, the twilight of a nation's myth is reinvented by the hands of the master craftsman of generous literature. A captivating dialogue with the fragility of existence, with life and its deaths, and, of course, with the creators of poetry."
