Beyond sentimental laspect of the case, this is the reaction of Lol V. Stein that surprised the entire city of S. Thala. Indifferent delle emptied herself, she would spend long months distraught. This is his unexpected encounter with a musician who could breathe the breath of life, even in its daily quhétérogène dull.
Because of scandal or passion it had not ny later in the life of Lol V. Stein. Far from his home town, she became a wife, a mother, a housewife. Although flawless, it was without any zeal.
Her days passed, monotonous and regular. Her husband sémouvait his lack of imagination. Alleys of what commanded his gardener, and that does not lead anywhere, do not communicate with each other.
Despite all this, Lol. V Stein seemed to be "cured" prom T. Beach. Now nothing sopposait his return to S. Thala, lorsquelle and inherited the family home, it was done. She found no pleasure out begins to walk the streets, first without a specific goal, and then in a rapture increasingly renewed. What does research in these solitary wanderings of the past in this city where she is remembered dune "crazy"?
Even her friend denfance, Tatianna Karl observes with astonishment the labandonnée back the ball from the casino. Can what is "normal"? As before? Dailleurs navait not she always was a little different? Lol speaks, smiles Lol, Lol eagerly and suddenly fills the gap dindifférence what had watched passively widen between her and the rest of the world all these years.
Jacques Hold is the lover of Tatianna Karl. It narrates this tale, with reserve and discretion, with intimacy and devotion lenigme Lol V. Stein. All the attention of the latter seems centered on him, which she glimpsed him a few days earlier the approach in the street, move away slowly alongside Karl Tatianna. Léclat brief but vivacious, this adulterous couple basking in the intensity of past memories replaying that generates the vision of her friend denfance in this adulterous affair seems to bring Lol. V. Stein in the empty point, the hollow shape, prom T. Beach.
How to enjoy again this time dintense dispossession of his being? Lol V. Stein instinctively try to find the feeling, the content of this traumatic moment she was stolen to itself.
Revels she end up in this simple echo? Can it really feel again something in the resonance that void now? To feel what it would have felt then?
Marguerite Duras describes with talent dune dentelière thoroughness, this fragile and delicate construction. It follows the mysterious journey of Lol V. Stein to his "delight" with the first ball of youth, to a second, older and compulsive, that could just be the masquerade, and yet, in its delicacy and pain, gradually becomes heavier and more real than the prom Lol V. Stein youth.
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