The tribute made to Mary

"An honorable woman": this was the title that Françoise Giroud in his time titled his biography of Marie Curie. A good book for that matter, very full, to tell the fate of this small outsized Polish nobelisée twice and very badly treated by the French company when she fell in love with Langevin, then married. But this is only a small part of the life of Mary whose great love was Peter, her husband with whom she worked as a damned for discovering radium. The ridiculous idea to never see you again is not yet another biography of the most famous scientist of his time. Rather a comment on his existence through his research but especially the loss of a beloved, her Peter, and impossible mourning, gentle and cruel at the same time. In a preface, Rosa Montero received the newspaper that Mary stood for a year after the accident that killed her husband and this discovery aroused in the Spanish novelist incredible emotion, she also had just lost Pablo, man of his life, after a disease inexorable outcome. As one of Rosa Montero friends pointed out to him the reading before publication, there in the book "a lot of Mary, Peter and Rosa and less than Pablo." True, the ridiculous idea ... finally says little about him, modesty and because it was impossible to reveal more. And his pain, Rosa Montero knows the leash as did Marie Curie, one being in the equivalent literature of the other for science. The book is not a requiem, it is intimate, sincere, playful sometimes very personal but without complacency that is often found in the confessions. With height of soul and his ability to stand straight in the storms of affliction while whispering in the ear of the reader. The Marie Curie Rosa Montero is a fighter, a woman in a man's world that do him any gifts and martyrisent the slightest weakness. Not a saint but a very hard pioneer with others and even more with itself. His portrait could have been a hagiography, it is far more a tribute and an example of courage told benevolently and often very touching. Rosa Montero drew in his life and in his words a force and conviction that helped her overcome her pain. And accept to see in front of death, and worse, the absence of the final that most in the world was darling.