Paulo José Miranda, A nail in the heart, Translation Sáez Antonio Delgado, Editorial Peripheral Cáceres, 2007.
A nail in the heart is not only a novel, but also a poetry and a letter. The letter is a fragmented text sent by Tiago Pereira da Silva to his friend, the Portuguese poet Cesário Green, who died of tuberculosis in 1886, which sets out the ideas about poetry and philosophy of both authors. Thus, the philosophy of James and the poetry of the universe Cesário make a significant nail in the heart. There is a poem that appears in the work as a pretext for writing, entitled The feeling of a western . It looks green Cesário Portuguese society end of the nineteenth century, something that is far away. However, the importance of the work is that it handles a subject that has been treated by many authors of the twentieth century: the disappearance of the writer through his writing. When Blanchot and Paul Virilio and later touched on the subject, when Kafka taught us to pass from me to him and Vila-Matas in Spain to investigate the disappearance of art, the artist and the man, Cesario Verde wondered whether long before light could disappear just as we do in the shadows and if the artist exists when not present in other people's conversations. A nail in the heart is a novel agile and beautiful, heartbreaking lyricism and some pathology of artist who is asked about his situation in the world.
