THE TREASURE

[adaptation of the homonymous tale]

O Tesouro

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Eça de Queirós

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Some masterpieces contain an incitement to create, a kind of contagion of the creation process. They stimulate the inventiveness of the readers. For me, I confess, this is the summit of art. Paul Valéry said that inspiration is not the state in which the poet who writes is found, but rather the state in which the poet who writes intends to place the reader. Montaigne said that instructing a child is not like filling a vase, it's like lighting a fire. It would not be possible to say better (...)

 

in Is there a children's literature ?, Michel Tournier