I had not received such a literary shock, nor been so fascinated by a novel since "The Kindly Ones" by Jonathan Littell Jonathan Littell but ... crossed with Umberto Eco, as this book adds to its incredibly rich one erudition top flight. This book to scholarly construction, made of spatio temporal digressions (sometimes from one sentence to the other!), Nevertheless bed with ease (it's what brings Jaume Cabre Umberto Eco) providing more fun continuous playback despite the length of the novel (about 800 p). This is for the author to expound on the workings of evil, which can not be explained by any hierarchical or alibi that soit.Le Evil is unique as it demonstrates in a dizzying Chapter 24 or an inquisitor of the fifteenth century and a torturer commander of Auschwitz mix their personality to make only four centuries later! fanatics of God or Hitler are returned back to back, the absolute evil does not prioritize! For us to get the message, Jaume Cabre uses the life of a Catalan scholar, who tells us the form of a letter to his lost companion, and that of a famous violin, his, red wire back time and symbolize the constancy of Art (the music is all over the book) through siècles.Une life made of questioning, rebellion and love, especially amour.Par funny moment when such , involved two figures of his childhood (an Indian and a sheriff), the novel becomes upsetting to the end. Absolutely masterful!
