... Turning his head, he realized that Charles had fallen asleep. Like a child who falls asleep listening to a story.
Like a breath of fresh air you feel this novel the reader David Foenkinos published by Seix Barral. What would Reader without French literature? What would happen to all those readers looking Gallic gala in the literature that are not in others? 'Delicacy' of David Foenkinos is for them. It is a tribute to the reader. It is a small delight, a work brief, intense, playful, brilliant, brilliant. It is fortunate that there are writers who write this kind of comedy tragicomic reflection of life. 'Delicacy' is a story of love, yes, love in plural, there are several kinds of love all of them valid, solid, and unique individuals themselves who are licensed to do crazy things or to withdraw into oneself . For made to understand, even today, no one who understands this love could be summed up to say: " for guy or girl, that I do not know what happens but I am comfortable with you , is that I love you " . While love can be summarized in one sentence as well. Nathalie the star of 'The delicacy' presented in this tragicomedy as the princess of the story is sad and as with any story there's a hero and a villain. The hero and villain laugh will suffer. What happens is that 'Delicacy' the hero does not possess the archetypal hero, is rather an anti-hero, a guy who lost on all quisqui, until the light of Nathalie illuminated by a spotlight care projects around the world to him, including the villain, and therein lies the comedy, in what came to be the particular tragedy of Nathalie . And that sweet and delicate balance of the ways the anti-hero of the novel are a delight to any good reader can miss, for who can resist not feel happy at least for a few hours? Nobody. For that: to be read 'Delicacy' . Discover this little gem.
© MARIA SANZ AIXA
** antihero
m. LIT. A literary character, narrative or dramatic who is credited with the physical, psychological and human contrary to the traditional hero.