"[...] Dear Reader, it will be worthwhile, alongside my Poetry Selection, to offer you now my Chosen Tales, two remarkable books of my literary journey that circumstances have not allowed to be more fruitful. I hope, however, that together with the other works - novels, essays and civic intervention - they will bear witness, albeit modestly, to a writer committed to his time because he considers literature to be "the expression of his own humanity and of all humanity". |