«Este Homem e esta Mulher» – James T. Farrel

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Escondido num canto das estantes, entre milhares de outros, aparece-me no decurso das arrumações na livraria este livro de James T. Farrel. Não me lembro de o ter comprado, embora uma etiqueta presa na página de rosto me diga que o terei feito na livraria Furtado da Lourinhã. Buraco negro na memória, talvez a releitura reconstitua esse momento e me faça recordar quem eu era quando o comprei. O original é de 1958 e foi publicado em portugal, no mesmo ano, na colecção Sucessos Literários da Editora Ulisseia. O romance é o relato duma relação sufocante entre um homem e uma mulher ao longo de quarenta anos de casamento, que degenera na loucura de um e no assassínio do outro. Uma primeira nota sobre o autor, aqui.

James T. Farrel (1904-1979)

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James T. Farrell was born in Chicago on February 27, 1904. Farrell was raised in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. A good portion of his fiction is set in Chicago and focuses on working class and intellectual characters. Farrell published more than twenty-five novels during his lifetime, as well as numerous collections of stories and works of criticism, but he is best-known for his trilogy of novels focusing on the character Studs Lonigan, and for a series of five novels centered around the character Danny O’Neill. Farrell was also active in contemporary politics and is generally associated with writers of the American left who emerged during the 1930s and 1940s. In his later years, Farrell devoted much of his writing to a cycle of novels titled A Universe of Time which he began writing in the early 1960s and which he projected to approximately thirty titles. James T. Farrell died in 1979 (Fonte). Leituras: