Line fishing - some memories

António Alçada Baptista returns to our company with this book. With his characteristic disarming simplicity, he tells us about his choices, his freedom in making them, the profound seriousness of his commitment to life, his peculiar relationship with writing, he infects us with his zest for life, he makes us hear his "Laughter of God" which so often translates into a "little story" with an anecdotal flavour. Names we know and who have shaped contemporary consciousness come alive in these pages - politicians, writers, intellectuals, great thinkers, people from near and far, in prose itself imbued with the sensuality and musicality of other climates. This book of his, made of memories, helps us to better understand our time and the pleasure of reading it comes from encountering great national and international names and figures. But it also comes from participating in key pioneering adventures of collective becoming.