"Embers" by ... FRANCESCO
's the story of an intense friendship youth degraded into its opposite with onset of maturity. In a "'felix Austria", but already on the brink of its dissolution, the young Henrich belongs by birth to the wealthy nobility, and it lives as a natural vocation to its role as a military officer in the glittering world of the imperial court. The family of the young Konrad has instead sacrificed everything to ensure that the child can become part of that world. Konrad has natural talent but not suited to a soldier's sensitivity and musical inclinations, he loves the culture and reading. But this inner wealth rather than existential give depth to his life, secretly envy turns to hate the kindness which his friend Heinrich has always surrounded the beautiful world of high society, where he moves, however, with rigid where is coldness and formality and distance. The situation is worsening with the emergence of a secret understanding with the loving wife of his friend Krisztina Henrich has elected its own inclinations. In the semi-darkness of dawn to hunt Konrad point the gun into the neck of the friend who is on the trajectory of a deer, but did not dare to shoot because he is a coward. " The tragic romantic whirlpool sucks the rest of the existence of the three characters in a romantic fate of solitude. Konrad disappears going to sink, into voluntary exile, tropical hell of Malaysia. Henrich retires to the hunting lodge of his estate. Krisztina has remained in the castle, is allowed to die in a few years after the disappointment of no return of Konrad and the silence of Henrich. Forty years later Konrad old reappeared at the castle one last time to see the places and people where and with whom he lived that one season of passion whose embers continued to flare in his long exile. Henrich, old, has waited a lifetime to get answers to the betrayal of his friend and his wife on which, in solitude, has long pondered.
whole novel is a long sequence of defeats. Henrich fail because he pours his emotional charge about people (Konrad, Krisztina) with which it can strike the spark of mutual devotion, friendship or love, because they lack the affinity with them. Choose them and attracts the world with its profusion of its assets, but other than him and he will not be able to penetrate into their secret and lose both. Konrad fails because it undergoes choices of others that require a role that he lives as a profession and not as a vocation. And once formed his character suffers from a desire to be different from what it is. The emotional tension drags him with envy and hatred which he reaches on his friend, at least intentionally, the extreme act of murder. It autopunisce of his treachery, for forty years living in an environment that removes all intellectual and artistic substance.
The book is dense with philosophical considerations about the substance of friendship, the meaning of the killing, on the inevitability of his fate, on belonging to its own history, land, society and culture. The autobiographical reflections of a prolific writer who has suffered the 'exclusion and even physical separation from his land and his cultural world are obvious. That's intense nostalgia inspired the sublime pages of the environment in places, in the castle and the enchantment of nature, that shine like the embers never soothed vivid in the minds of its protagonists.
by Lucy and Albert
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