Name: O caminho imperfeito
ISBN: 9789897223563

José Luís Peixoto

O caminho imperfeito

Inês Alegria Ferreira

I love José Luís Peixoto's books. For me, he is one of the best Portuguese writers. I obviously am not stating anything out of the ordinary since a lot of Portuguese readers buy his books and like them. Nevertheless, I feel like people never really talk a lot about his travel writing, which is by far my favorite. From his novels I also only read Galveias, so I can't speak about those a lot, and I have never read his poetry. I definitely plan on digging more into those two other facets but for now, let's get to the main point of this whole review.

O Caminho Imperfeito was how I became familiar with José Luís Peixoto. I had never read anything by him, and at the time when I read this it became my favorite book ever. Since then I have read his other travel book called "Dentro do Segredo" and although I really liked it, nothing could beat this one. Here Peixoto speaks about his traveling through Bangkok, Thailand.

I have a special kind of fascination with Asian countries and I would love to go visit one. But as José Peixoto personally said to me when I asked him to autograph my book of him: "you have your whole life to travel to places. With your age I had been nowhere". Whenever I feel I'm getting a little too maniac about going places and trying to experience everything all at once I like to recall those words and I immediately feel more relaxed.

I would only like to add to this that I found this book to be so poetic, enticing, and enveloping. Plus the book has a bunch of illustrations by Hogo Makarov that are extremely beautiful. It is not a surprise that José Peixoto has one of the book's drawings tattooed on his arm.

O caminho imperfeito

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