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  EL ARROYO (THE STREAM) Text by Elisée Reclus Illustrations by Eloar Guazzelli Translated by A. López Rodrigo ISBN: 84-930221-6-0 160 pp. PVP: 15'03 euros "El Arroyo" is a unclassifiable story, something between science and poetry. Its author shows us the course of an imaginary river from its birth at the source to its emptying out into the sea. The text is divided in short chapters and tells the successive changes affecting the stream, while offering constant considerations on the role of human beings in nature; its simple language alternates between scientific detail and metaphor and beautiful imagery. In setting his novels, Jules Verne made ample use of the geographer Elisée Reclus's works, which were extremely popular at the time. Eloar Guazzelli, a Brazilian artist from Rio Grande do Sul, has drawn a paper river 45 metres long, with its pools and its rapids, traversing the entire book like a blue ribbon "The story of a stream, even the smallest, born and lost in the moss, is the story of the infinite. (...) The whole of our imagination is not enough to encompass the entire circuit of a drop, and that is why we limit ourselves to following it in its course and fall, from its appearance at the source until it joins the mighty river and the vast ocean". (E. Reclus)
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