Books published by Quantum Prose

GONÇALO M. TAVARES (Luanda, 1970) has been published in almost fifty countries and has been awarded an impressive amount of national and international literary prizes. Jerusalem received the Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa and the LER / Millenium Prize. Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique was awarded the Best Foreign Book 2010 in France. He also received the Grande Prêmio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores. In Reading is Walking (The Encyclopedia Series), Tavares reflects, with his already- distinctive style, on the topicsof Science, Fear, Connections, Music and Bloom-Literature. Beside his work as a writer, the author teaches Epistemology at the University of Lisbon.

"The experience of One Day in the Secret Forest of Words is, without any doubt or blandishment, an experience of rapport with the observable and of openness to its profound import." Carlos Andrés Landázuri Súarez, Universidad de las Artes, Ecuador. "Vicente Valero is a writer of great metaphysical profundity, but a realist withal, not abstract. He has the privilege of observing both death and love." Octavio Paz Nobel Prize for Literature, 1990.

"The only possible points of comparison for Javier Moreno’s Alma, a book made of sentences, dealing with the materiality of the living, and obsessed with sorting, would be those texts that are most luminous and uncanny. Alma, unlike anything else I have read, brings together certain amazing qualities of Craig Dworkin’s Legion (which consists entirely of statements from a psychiatric diagnostic instrument), of the more radical of David Markson’s novels, and of the quietly fevered voices from the writing of Roberto Bolaño. Is it a soul? A novel? Interesting questions – but in any case, Alma is a configuration of words that demands to be sorted through, one that is compellingly unhinged, open and shut.” Nick Montfort, Professor of Media Studies at MIT.

“A first phrase is always a first phrase: it begins. And in these poetic theorems, each theorem is always a first phrase. And the beginning, any beginning, always has additional force: it's always at the inception of a process where the greatest quantity of a substance is concentrated.”  —Gonçalo Tavares, author of Jerusalem“Landing between prose and poetry, science and art, philosophy and spirituality, The Hidden Third charismatically disseminates a new renaissance transmission, one highly pertinent for contemporary times. Leaving the reader breathless, re-imagined, re-generated. Mind duly sanctified.” “  —Gary P. Hampson, co-creator of The University for the Future“We could ask Basarab Nicolescu about the last constituents of matter or language, since language is according to him a truly quantum phenomena. Nicolescu also takes a step further by introducing the logic of the third secretly included in the classical Aristotelian logic,  which  plays the role of a living symbol that unites contradictions, by embracing and fusing them.” —Michel Camus, writer and member of the International Center for Interdisciplinary Research