This work combines autobiography (the parallel choice of medicine, the car accident that almost killed him) with an anthology of his greatest moments, whether as a novelist, short story writer or columnist. The book also features rare texts, some written when Scliar, one of Brazil’s most respected contemporary writers, was still a teenager. How is an artist (in this case, of words) born?
And what if, in addition to this birth, he also embraces the vocation of medicine, the most vital and human of all sciences? Because this man, writer and doctor, who asks and answers, with immense curiosity, frequent humor and touching generosity, about the fate of art and the world it portrays, is Moacyr Scliar, author of a prolific body of work and a career like few others in Brazil.
