Detective story? Historical novel? Thinking about the present and past heresies, on religions and political systems that oppress individuals and peoples? This novel brews all genres without reaching the maîtriser.La construction is heavy and often pesant.Certes style, it is caught by the various stories Padura well painfully tries to gather in the third part, adding a new riddle, new unconvincing rebels for fear that the player has, it seems, firmly told not understand the message. Padura is not Homère.Ce novel is not a épopée.Mario Conde is an anti-hero who suffers harm the company's heretical pupil of Rembrandt, the only one, in my view, that is worth the appellation.A read anyway if you like Conde and if you loved 'The Man Who Loved Dogs, "but the disappointment is waiting for you.
