It's been a while since heartbreak left romanticism to make an appointment at the psychiatrist, like every neighbor's son. Narrating that raw heartbreak takes on another dimension in the hands of Daria Bignardi. Because it is about undressing miseries that they leave in cold solitude before a Universe that suddenly looms over the human being abandoned to his fate.
She who felt channeled in that kind of shared destiny. He who perhaps felt that heaviness that supposes the lightness of an existence to burn together with the same soul. The affair ended badly, precipitated for her and inexcusable for him. But the worst thing is that life goes on, changing from fifth to first, slowing everything down under the feeling that perhaps one will never die and have to wander through existence for millennia of pain.
With that hint of resilience, sublimation or the euphemism that you want to put today to leave bruised and lick your wounds after a failed relationship, this plot manages to convince us that everything happens, that nail that pulls out another nail, although perhaps no longer via new loves for a broken and burned heart...
Since her husband, Doug, left her suddenly and without explanation, Galla spends her days on the couch, staring at the magnolia on the patio, fantasizing about all kinds of ideas about what she wants to do with her life and feeling guilty about what she has done. happened.
During his first solo trip, to Munich, he accidentally discovers the house museum where the work of the painter Gabriele Münter is exhibited. Her pictures "so full of color and so devoid of joy" mesmerize her. From that moment on, Gabriele's voice enters Galla's life: he torments and mocks her as he recounts her long love story with Kandinski, much like Galla's with Doug.
An irresistible novel, at times ironic and always passionate, that mixes lightness and depth, grace and tenderness, while exploring our relationship with pain, which, deep down, is our relationship with ourselves.
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