Contributions by Daniela Lima
Daniela Lima studied Physics, Journalism and is currently working toward a Master's in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal do Rio. She’s the editor of Caixa Preta Editora, which publishes collaborations from artists and writers, and works at the Instituto Moreira Salles. Her first novel, Anatomia, appeared in 2012. She’s writing the biography of the writer Maura Lopes Cançado, the first woman to fly an airplane in Brazil in the 1940s. She lives in Rio de Janeiro.
Daniela Lima
translated by Leah Leone
Diary of Vienna
A young boy carries a bucket of water. Its weight seems somehow lightened by the belief that the desiccated tree will come back to life if watered every day. The end of the story is less important than the image of his persistence—and his faith. I cannot conceive of anything more idiotic than faith, especially with respect to faits accomplis. The tree is dead. The feeling I have is that death appropriates everything, as if taking something back something that had been his all along.
It is impossible to halt the processes that take over the body, after death. The body stops being a body, after death. Death arrogates the deepest, most intimate spaces. The darkness is complete, the silence, the body that continues but does not go on, after death. I am too … Read More »
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