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Book of the month of October
Title: "Gargoyle "
Author: Andrew Davidson
Trama :
Una vita senza sentimenti, una carriera come famoso attore porno, serate dedicate al più assoluto edonismo, nessun legame. È tutto ciò che l'anonimo protagonista di questo romanzo si trova alle spalle, mentre giace in un letto d'ospedale a seguito di un terribile incidente stradale, completamente sfigurato dalle ustioni. Ora che non può più in alcun modo fare affidamento sul suo corpo egli attende in solitudine, senza nessun amico, il giorno in cui sarà abbastanza forte da alzarsi dal letto e uccidersi. Durante una delle sue interminabili giornate, tuttavia, una ragazza di nome Marianne entra nella sua stanza e comincia a parlargli come if they had always known. It is a psychiatric hospital patient, a brilliant sculptor of stone gargoyle however affected by deep manic. Despite the initial distrust of the narrator Marianne will be back in the days following, telling him what she said to have been their first love affair, which occurred in Germany in the thirteenth century. From there, on a regular basis, will return to her bedside to tell him, as in the Thousand and One Nights, of love stories take place between them at other times.
Review of ร เ 3 ๏ ภ ค
"Everything that can withstand fire, you do pass through the fire and will be made clean. "
First, I commend the book cover of this edition Oscar Mondadori, is very suitable and especially beautiful:
the boy's face is in the throes of a metamorphosis in which the flesh becomes poetic plant. drops that are think of pure, fresh water, but also in sweat and crying together, slip on the skin of the boy and rose petals (and they look real!).
The cover tells us figuratively a transfiguration that seems to change not only the body but also the spirit of the protagonist who is freed from sin through the acceptance of physical punishment. This gives him the opportunity to draw closer to the most important values \u200b\u200bof life and therefore Live fully.
The theme of metamorphosis is not the case again in the passion of Marianne Engel, female protagonist, who possesses the art of carving grotesque. The sculpture is a massive step dall'immota heaviness of matter vital to the motion of the shape of which one can not help but admire the miracle of rough-hewn, beauty, even if it is to be sculpted a statue of a flying monster, what , commonly and erroneously is called Gargoyle.
Started reading the book, the story just takes you and grab you the way it is told through a very direct approach to search the narrator with the reader. Direct way to approach mean that the reader is constantly being urged to try to identify himself in the affair, tried to feel what the protagonist. Initially, we must resign ourselves to experience the pain and suffering (though filtered through a touch of self-irony), then a spiritual path of ascent, hope and love.
I recommend this book to everyone, especially those who also love the short stories in this book because there are different and very touching.
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