... If you have the courage. This book is a violent slap, brutal punch. Truths not easy to swallow. Because about assénés by this intelligent woman and without illusion (that has so wanted to do well, gave up his life, his business, his success, to get into the mold and die of guilt), though qu'empreints consistency and bitter lucidity are not always easy to admit. His slow imprisonment, yet consented to a life she does not like, prefigures that of his son and ends with a terrible tragedy they are the two main protagonists. Criticism of stupid conformism, the role imposed on women, the so-called "maternal instinct", emptiness of human life, the projection too heavy to wear parents on their offspring. The worst is surely the portrait of this stupid father and pleased with himself, blinded by social dictates, his illusions, unable to admit his son sociopathy. He therefore ordered his wife, his daughter, his son and of course the victims of the latter this preventable tragedy (?). The book is essential from the film (played well but of course incomplete). Text neat, punchy without being sensationalist, never needlessly provocative, just a bitter fact of stupidity and human pretension of his blindness. A splendor. I had the impression of reading a Greek tragedy. Nothing easy, no compromise, pure lucidity, hard, terribly fair and acute ... What talent!
