Let backwards all hopelessness, the reader: and blessed to come here in search of reasons to love the beauty of the woman, extolling the virtue of idleness, boredom cursing and pray at the altar of bohemia find plenty of reasons in the Chronicles of Paul Mendes Campos. Expert in the science of bringing prose poetry in elegant, light and humorous texts, the chronicles of "O amor acaba" a miner based in Rio de Janeiro and less the story teller than the apostle of the good life. Often published in newspapers, before tests are on the ephemerality of ecstasy found in everyday rougher than narratives about Brazil in the 1950s and 60s - environment that fostered the bossa nova, the new cinema, football-art and the art of conversation row, expressed in the generation that spawned, among others, Rubem Braga, Fernando Sabino, Antonio and Maria Drummond as luminaries from so precise as elusive genre: the chronicles.