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La Verità, Soltanto La Verità (2011)

by Helen Humphreys(Favorite Author)
3.33 of 5 Votes: 5
ISBN
8889113561 (ISBN13: 9788889113561)
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English
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Playground
review 1: I admire authors who use real historical figures as the characters in their fiction. This book is about Charles Saint-Beuve, a contemporary of Victor Hugo, whose greatest love is Hugo’s wife. It is fascinating to explore the extreme freedom and the extreme constraints of a society woman of her time. It contains a strong message about harm caused by inaction, but not a cautionary message, because she couldn’t have chosen otherwise. But we can. The book leaves us with a point to ponder: is it more important to have had the experience of love, or to make sacrifices to sustain it? And what are the effects if you don't make sacrifices?
review 2: la storia d'amore tra saint-beuve e adèle hugo, l'amicizia/rivalità tra il poeta e lo scrittore, la figura di victor
... more hugo (titanica e schiacciante, nel suo immenso egocentrismo), l'altra adèle- figlia, appassionata, innamorata senza speranza e dunque, condannata alla pazzia. storia e fiction si mescolano in un romanzo potente, raccontato da più voci attraverso episodi e ricordi scanditi dal passare inesorabile del tempo e dalle mille fragilità e speranze infrante. [non è un capolavoro come "cani selvaggi", ma un buon romanzo- nettamente superiore alle altre prove della humphreys tradotte in italiano] less
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DanteTheCrazy
Beautifully written, poetic and with great ambiance, but the characters were uninteresting to me.
bbygrl1311
Cannot wait to sink my teeth into this book, it sounds so interesting !
brylee
Charles Sainte-Beuve's affair with Adele, Victor Hugo's wife.
linuhh
sweet and different, well imagined, well written.
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