Alberto Pimentel - O Romance do Romancista

What you are about to read is the drama of a superior soul, largely drawn from his own books. Camilo's life abounds picturesquely with varied episodes of good and bad fortune. Reading this writer is like mentally structuring the narrative of his existence. What I have done is simply to give the emotion produced by his work the chronological fixation of a biography.

Some investigations, which are my own, naturally stemmed from the desire to replace the ellipses and fill the gaps that his books, written without the concern of an autobiography, presented to the reader's legitimate curiosity. Camilo's historical profile stands out in the romantic grandeur of his happy and unhappy days as much as in the culmination of his indisputable literary glory. After the struggles of his eventful youth, misfortune came to torment him, leveling the prominence of his talent with the enormity of his martyrdom.