The war intrastories make up the most noir scenario possible, the one that awakens aromas of survival, cruelty, alienation and a remote hope. Claudel he composes this mosaic of stories with a diversity of foci depending on the proximity or distance with which each narrative is sighted. The short narrative has that great advantage over novels. The whole, the volume ends up conveying a feeling like a symphony of orchestrated lives, in this case, among the noise of weapons.
A dark and captivating story about Germany, the two world wars and the wounds of Nazism through five interrelated stories of great virtuosity and beauty.
Considered one of the best French novelists of his generation, Philippe Claudel continues to german fantasy the investigation of the darkest corners and the complex mechanisms that guide human beings initiated in Gray souls y The Brodeck Report. In this case, through five interrelated stories that make up a personal, dark and stark narrative about Germany, the two world wars and the postwar period.
Fascinated by Germany and the ghosts of the XNUMXth century that still inhabit reality, Claudel offers us, through some mysterious settings and the deep and harsh portrait of the characters, a disturbing book, of great virtuosity and beauty, which is also a reflection about the painful wounds of Nazism and the place of man in the face of horror.
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