As he says, his spiritual family:
- Camoes, because all Portugese roads lead to him
- Father Antonio Vieira, because the Portugese language was never more beautiful than when this Jesuit was writing it.
- Cervantes, because without the author of Quixote the Iberian peninsula would be a house without a roof
- Montaigne, because he did not need Freud to know who he was
- Voltaire, because he lost all illusions about humanity and managed to survive his disgust
- Raul Brandao, because you don't have to be a great genius to write a great book, like his Humus
- Fernando Pessoa, because the door you take to find him is also the door you take to find Portugal
- Kafka, because he demonstrated that man is a beetle
- Eca de Queiroz, because he taught the Portugese irony
- Jorge Luis Borges, because he invented virtual literature
- and Gogol, because he contemplated humanity and found it to be sad.
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