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By Maria Barbal
The start of the 20 th century: 13-year-old Conxa has to go away her domestic village within the Pyrenees to paintings for her childless aunt. After years of challenging labour, she unearths love with Jaume - a love that may be thwarted by way of the Spanish Civil battle. drawing close her personal loss of life, Conxa appears again on a existence during which she has misplaced every little thing other than her personal indomitable spirit. This tale provides a desirable undying voice, all the way down to earth and whole of human contradictory nuances. Its' the expression of somebody who searches for figuring out in a altering global yet senses that eventually there is no such factor. The Catalan smooth vintage, first released in 1985, is now in its fiftieth version, and has offered over 50 000 copies within the final years in Germany by myself.
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I used the key chain incident itself, and I condensed what the men at the bar said and attributed their whimsical requests to the key chain man. Then I further removed the scene from real life by filtering the dialogue through Angel's perceptions. As much as I liked some of those other passages in the journal, I had to be careful to use only what fit into my story, no more, no less. What would have happened to the story if I'd simply lifted the entire journal entry into my story without transforming it?
But now that I think about it, I can see it working into a story in a couple of ways. The way in which Id incorporate the anecdote would depend entirely on whose point of view the story is told from. The haughty critic would view the episode differently from the unfortunate amateur thespian who played Salieri. I keep a journal for a variety of reasons. Sometimes I want to chronicle, as in a diary. Sometimes I want to record a detail that otherwise would be lost forever. Sometimes I record a dream, and a couple of these dreams have actually been the kernels for some short stories I've written.
That's fine,' he said. T can take off the woman and put on another man. I already did that with one gay establishment. I'll put on dogs. I'll put on a man and a horse. Even two Japanese girls and a rhinoceros if that's what you want. ' Some people just want to shock you. I could have called the cops, but I ignored him. " Ivy says. " says Angel. I take my hand off the lid and wait for Ivy to open up the box, but she doesn't move. What's she waiting for? I wonder if I'm going TURNING LIFE INTO FICTION <21> nuts.