Categories:

uncategorized

Blog Posts By Tag: Brazil



The Pensive Catholic - The Moral of Catholic Fiction
Tags: A Hero For The People, Morality in Fiction, Moral of the story, Parables, Aesop's Fables, Brazil, Brazilian Amazon, Writing as a vocation, Truth in Fiction, Empathy and fiction, Moral Value in fiction, Seeing through another's eyes
Category: uncategorized
Posted by: Arthur Powers
Posted on: Oct 26 2014 At: 10:34 PM
Recently a reader stated how much she liked A Hero For The People, but said that she was not sure what moral lesson she should learn from each of the stories.  This is a valid question, and deserves an answer....
Read More

The Pensive Catholic - Magical & Marvelous
Tags: Brazil, magic realism, Latin America, supernatural, Franciscan, evil eye, miracles, Bernardo Aparicio, A Hero For The People, beyond the grave, conversion, Amazon, folk beliefs
Category: uncategorized
Posted by: Arthur Powers
Posted on: Oct 19 2014 At: 4:25 PM
In Latin America, magic-realism is simply realism.  Our years in Brazil taught me that there are many more things in this world that our minds have dreamed of.  ...
Read More