The writer that Urbano Tavares Rodrigues considered “to delve into the viscera of the human being” and who definitely established himself in Portuguese literature with the novel “Três Bichos te Esperam, Quatro te Comerão”, will launch, five years later, the book “Minuto do Palhaço Frente ao Espelho”.
This new work by Manuel Andrade, introduced on the back cover by the almost naïve phrase “it is a small book that you read in one night, it is a larger work that carries a life – said a carpenter one day”, questions, nevertheless and from thread to thread fuse – not rarely on a knife’s edge – the laughable of an existence that is, after all, that of all of us. It is a simple, touching and often almost moving book, which analyzes the naked human being and in the mirror, without contemplation or convenience, in a disarming, sensitive and profound writing, which portrays us as a whole.