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But
one day, suddenly, this gift disappears and the
man has to leave his good job because he doesn't
know how to do it by himself; he is confused,
because he never had to be worried about the
life, as he had lived according to the thoughts,
the opinions and the ideas of the others.
But he had saved enough money, and so he decides
to go abroad to start a new life, in a tropical
country. There he spends the
first months doing nothing; the life runs
serenely among those landscapes, with those
people who has much to teach to him, in
spite of their big daily problems. Then, the gift
comes again, but this time it works with the
artistic thoughts and, particularly, with
the imagined tales.
The man begins "to
steal" the others' tales; sometimes the true
author is famous, sometimes he is not. Anyway,
the stolen tales are always good, and this
allows to the man to publish them with his name,
earning money. This becomes his profession and,
after years of such profession,
he forgets he was a "thief of tales".
But he has to change often the place where he
lives, and also his name; so he collects several
identities, until when his stealing became too
popular and the real authors became a serious
problem: he has to escape in the middle
of the tropical jungle.
He comes
again to the civilization when he learns people
think he is dead during an accident; he comes
with another tale stolen in the meanwhile, and
because he is tired to ran up and down across the
countries, he dreams about making a family. He
falls in love with a mulatto prostitute,
but he doesn't understand his same feelings until
he is almost losing her.
It happens
that an author of his first stolen tales reaches
this man and, this time, he is imprisoned; but
luckily not for much time. When he is out of the
prison, he tries to publish his first tale,
written by himself during the imprisonment; but
at that time, everybody knows him as a thief of
tales, and then he can't publish the only tale
really of him. The man will down and out, with no
trust in life, and he feels the need of a dear person by
his side, then looks for that prostitute and
after he has found, he will discover she had
loved him too and still she
does.
All the tale
shows several aspects of the magical customs and
practices of a tropical country, and often those
magical practices are an important part of the
story. Unfortunately, it is
not easy to find this book.........it is mine.
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