“Três Bichos Te Esperam Quatro Te Comerão” is the new novel by Manuel Andrade (the mentor of the ESCRITARIA EM PENAFIEL project or PLAST&CINE in Lamego).
The work is the result of a delayed psychoanalysis of a relationship that the writer – at the time a clinical psychologist – maintained with a dying man placed on a hospital stretcher: a rough and violent old man, an inveterate groper of nurses’ butts, although at the same time philosophical and gentlemen. of challenging mental drifts.
It is a cathartic work that Urbano Tavares Rodrigues did not hesitate to classify as a “dive into the viscera of the human being”, for questioning, in an almost cutting way and often on a knife’s edge, what we are all doing here, what what is truly worth it and what is absolutely worthless.
They are new horizons that open up about human remorse, the burning desire that ages and the painfully unfulfilled aspirations of human existence.

“Que fez afinal do seu tempo?, e há um fel que lhe vem à boca, mais azedo que vinagre misturado com sangue de gasnete de galinha, a crista a apontar para o cemitério, o rabo para uma fotografia macumbada, Que fiz afinal do meu tempo?, e chovem lá fora trovoadas, faz um frio de sol, Que fiz afinal do meu tempo?, e vem-lhe à boca um gosto de arrependimento que mais parece um composto dos piores sabores da terra, dos piores sabores do mar, dos sabores da tumba.”