Bernardo Majer, Estes Dias.

In Portuguese. Carton cover, 80 pp., colour, Portuguese; 17.5 x 24.5 cm. Octopus. RRP EUR13.90
There is nothing special about the ordinary daily life of mortals. Therefore, we offer ourselves, daily, fantasies, alternatives, escapes. But a poet can look at the ordinary, and see the extraordinary precisely in those moments of escape and escapism, and then the forced return to life, which makes us very human, The young Portuguese author Bernardo Majer reveals himself to be an astute observer of what makes people pathetic creatures, and with that they deserve our commotion and appreciation. Six short narratives (and a prologue-epigraph), in various configurations of human relationships in the most diverse social spheres and circumstances, accumulating facets of the same complexity: the one in which, if apparently "nothing happens", it is life in its interstices that extends. A remarkable book in the writing of short films in national comics, and beyond.