Lunch with God (Almoçei com Deus)
Atala-Atala
Caxaluva Editora Ltda. (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
LETTER FROM THE TRANSLATOR
by
Michael Atallah
As a translator, nephew, companion and accomplice of Atala-Atala I must openly declare my complete inability to describe this person.
Nothing can come close to describing the man who wrote this book.
Atala-Atala is truly an enigma.
His madness sails this universe to find those answers we all question, even if we don't realize it.
In 2006 I spent seven months in Rio working alongside him and every second brought new discoveries and changes to his process, let alone his madness.
This lunatic has taught me so much about the real meaning of life, and all the dimensions that expound once one decides to seek their full potential.
Or better yet, their full power.
My attempt to translate Lunch with God was was a very weird experience, dealing with real and unreal dimensions of living life.
While even understanding the nature of the author, I had to transform my ways in order to deal with myself and the new world around me.
New feelings, new decisions, new everything protruded into my life.
Thrown into dimensions never imagined was the internal struggle between my logical system, guiding me toward liberating all my old
anxieties to accept what was considered before as "impossible."
Lunch with God was not only a single work of translation.
It was the confirmation that what we have sleeping inside of us is
a great capacity to understand the universe more than ever thought of.
I am definitely not the same person I was after the translation...
(note: the book image above is not the actual cover for the English version. The English version is still in the editing phase and will be released here in the United States through Author House Publications. Caxaluva is the original owner of this work titled Almoçei com Deus.
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