Today’s Question by Aart Hilal

What inspires the characterization of the protagonist especially in case of female protagonists? How much of that inspiration comes from real life?

I only allow myself to write every two years because I feel that I’ve gathered enough emotional energy to come up with a story. I never know, before sitting at my desk, if I’m going to have a female or a male voice.

All is very unpredictable. As in life, there is not always a rational explanation for certain choices. My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul. Like in archery, the paradox is the bow that can be both tense and relaxed. I know that it’s important to have values in life, but I’ve always been more drawn to incoherence, because life is not static but rather like the tides, coming and going.

Real events, memories, longings, other stories - all fuse when I embark in a new story.

5 Responses to “Today’s Question by Aart Hilal”


  1. 1 Paul from Austria

    What a fascinating profession or calling you have dear Paulo… you can slip into a role… or into your very own soul… or both at the same time, fusing fable with reality… just fascinating…

    Thank you for sharing, Love, Paul

  2. 2 THELMA

    The Soul of the poet is always the battlefield. The silence of ..logic, in order the emotions take form. A woman or man protagonist, I think, is just names. In fact female and male principles co-exist in everyone of us. My best wishes for many two-yearly books! LOVE, THELMA

  3. 3 Agnieszka

    “As in life, there is not always a rational explanation for certain choices…. I know that it’s important to have values in life, but I’ve always been more drawn to incoherence, because life is not static but rather like the tides, coming and going…”

    so true, thank you

    love
    Agnieszka

  4. 4 Alexandra

    And you are right,for the results are true work of Art.

  5. 5 Tania

    Yes very true ..its better to be coming and going riding -chasing the waves like a surfer …waits for the right wave and catches it .Blessings Tania

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