“Young wife”
ToVEC delicacy and virtuosity, the author of silk and Novecento pianist does not merely recreate an enchanting world, at the edge of the fall, which is not unlike that Tomasi di Lampedusa portrayed in the Leopard.
He also gives us, the air of nothing, a great reflection on the craft of writing.
Original title: Sposa giovane
Trad. the Italian by Vincent Raynaud
Collection from around the world, Gallimard /224 p. / 19,50 €
Italy, beginning of the XXand century. One fine day, the young wife appeared before the family. She is eighteen and disembarks from Argentina because she should marry the son. Until he returned to England, She is greeted by the family. The young wife then saw a genuine sexual initiation : the daughter the seduced and made her education, duly completed by the mother, and father the duct in a luxury brothel where she will listen to a story building, that will unveil it the mysteries of this family in that incomprehensible as sophisticated rituals. But the son is still not, It just ship all sorts of strange objects, who seem initially announce his return and then mean to contrast his disappearance. When the family moved to summer resorts, the young wife decides to wait for him only, an expectation that will be full of surprises.
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