« Veiller sur elle » de Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Un chef-d’œuvre, un éloge à l’amour et à l’infatigable force humaine qui pousse à chercher le vrai bonheur. Avec une prose glorieuse et poétique, l’auteur raconte une histoire d’art qui se déroule pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle en Italie. La puissance des rêves humains et des durs travaux survit à tous les types de difficultés et de périls.
Inspiré par son amour impossible pour une jeune femme riche, Mimo Vitalini, sculpteur d’origines modestes et d’apparence difforme, cisèle une statue qui bouleverse l’âme humaine à jamais.
C’est l’un des meilleurs romans du XXIe siècle, digne des grands romanciers comme Gabriel García Márquez ou Albert Camus.
Sufferings of Love/ Garcia Marquez
The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had the opportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been surprised that he had not seen him at the Medical School, but he understood in an instant from the young man’s easy blush and Andean accent that he was probably a recent arrival in the city. He said:
“There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance one of these days.”
And only after he said it, he realized that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice.
“And when you do find one, observe with care,” he said to the intern: “they almost always have crystals in their heart.”
