"Embers" by Sandor Marai
publisher ADELPHI
Though published and probably written in 1942, is a book can be placed, for the air we breathe, that for the characters of the characters and their stories, traditional literature in the nineteenth-century romantic. A story with inflation - not the first nor last ever - love triangle, cut short by escaping to the tropics of the lover of the wife of a senior officer in the Habsburg Empire.
The story: after forty years, two men, that young people have been inseparable (one of those male friends no less intense relationship between two identical twins), they return to meet in a castle at the foot of the Carpathians. One has spent those decades in the Far East, the other has not moved from his property. But both have lived up to this moment. Nothing else mattered to them. Why? Because they share a secret that has a singular force, "" a force that burns the fabric of life as a malignant radiation, but at the same time gives warmth to life and keeps it in tension ". Everything converges on a 'duel swords' - and far more cruel. Among them, the shadow, the ghost of a woman.
The Author captivated the reader with a clear prose, pressing and sliding at the same time, capturing attention with a measured dose of suspense: it looks like a landscape invisible because all protected by a thick fog that slowly, with the passage of the pages, weakens and thins to dissolve and eventually uncover the truth. He discovers the past as it relates to the present. Magic chapter climax when the two are both hunting in thick woods, since before dawn, when Henrik perceived to have the barrel of Konrad bet on himself.
E 'work has suggested that everyone present in a series of questions which hath been tried, during the debate, to find objective answers, senza però raggiungere un'unità nell'esito, cosicchè ognuno ha conservato i rispettivi punti interrogativi suggeriti dalla lettura.
Eccone alcuni. Perchè mai Konrad ritorna dopo 41 anni dal giorno della sua fuga improvvisa e inaspettata? Perchè non risponde alle domande che gli vengono rivolte? Perchè non parla e non interviene nel lungo monologo del Generale? Ha davvero puntato il fucile contro l'amico? Erano d'accordo lui e Krisztina?
E il diario di quest'ultima, conservato per anni, rinvenuto alla sua morte e mai aperto dal marito nel momento in cui finalmente avrebbero potuto entrambi leggerlo e scoprire i pensieri della donna amata da entrambi, viene gettato nel fuoco del camino in cui viene lasciato burn up to become ashes.
's view that the General is the "bad" because he abandoned his wife, not forgive, retiring two hours by horse from the villa-castle where Krisztina let alone die without ever seeing her again, knowing of his illness . Krisztina has been left to die because she felt abandoned by both? Konrad is a coward, as in the indictment handed down by her as she was made aware that K. fled? But is not it - in his supposed cowardice - a man who wanted to - at the crucial moment - saving the life of one who had devoted friendship shown? Konrad himself lived with a difficult situation to the General when an adult, he realized that to him was not the most noble sentiments of friendship and affinity when the adolescent was transformed into the exact opposite, too many minds and ideals between the two. E 'Krisztina the only real victim? Be abandoned by the lover, escaped in the tropics, both by her husband? And yet Henrik is not at the same time he also a victim of circumstances as they had always had feelings of deep and sincere friendship for K. Krisztina and married for love and finds himself without a wife / love and no friends? Konrad fleeing the tropics does not renounce the pleasure of not only his intellectual aspirations (music, readings), but also the love of the beloved? They are prisoners of Henrik and Konrad, in their own way, the first prisoner of the memories (41 years of dark musings and reflections) and the second suite from his greatest aspirations (the presence of the lover and the possibility of making music and reading) this prevented the climate of the Tropics adverse and unhealthy for a European?
So many questions and a thousand doubts, all subjective, suggested by its sensitivity and mediated by their personal experiences of life and culture and agreed by all, with one exception, which is a great novel since it has aroused so many emotions .
The next June 25 - at 20.45 - we will find ourselves for the evening before the summer break to comment on two novels of another great exponent of Hungarian literature.
Magda Szabó: " THE DOOR" and " THE BALLAD OF IZA"
both published in Italy by EINAUDI
by Lucy and Albert
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