It is therefore slacks exchanged between Costal and admirers, and some moments of life Costal composing this book. The style is somewhat mannered, old-fashioned, and for that alone gives the taste for writing.
More importantly, it has an incisive way of describing reality bluntly and subtly judge, and that is where lies the richness of his writing: full of thought, he shares his thoughts on gender relations, the dangerous game of love, on the way to make men and women.
It's devilishly clever and rewarding for the reader, some passages are even hilarious in their black humor, so why deprive yourself?