Auschwitz-New York non-stop

Styron, I had read that "Facing the darkness" there is a very long time, at an age too little advanced for me to keep a precise memory. So I was relatively forgotten this author until I fall on "Sophie's Choice", a reading which undoubtedly remain engraved in my memory. A beautiful paved with 900 pages, which scares than its thickness. Once immersed in the prodigious style Styron - the translation is impeccable - and bewitched by the modernity of the work, you soon realize that we will not experience a dull page.

This is an impressive novel that stirs a lot of themes autobiographical episodes (the infernal editor job at the beginning of the young Stingo), the Southern United States and the remnants of slavery (fascination with insurgent Nat Turner which Styron drew his greatest literary glory), New York, friendship, guilt, destructive love at the edge of the abyss, carnal passion (the antics of Sophie and Nathan, the New York Jewish as awesome as actual crazy), the initiatory journey of young Stingo / Styron in his confrontation with sex (failures renewed before the final victory of God) and evil (the very long history of Sophie, between his father theorist of the Final Solution before the hour, and almost accidental experience in Auschwitz, where will be held the terrifying choice is laid upon him).

There was yet a common thread, which is the twentieth century, as Styron here seems to want condense through the double experience of sex and evil in all its madness and depth. Book "hot" par excellence where the desires and painful spasms repel the menacing shadow of pain and death. It is also one of the testimonies of the most terrible camps in all the literature of this senseless century that is already behind us.

In short, a "must-have".