The only theatrical text of the Belgian writer Amelie Nothomb, a cult author in recent years, is definitely below expectations, mainly lower as rhythm, pathos and conceptualism, his other works. The novel ( Editions Robin - Library of Vessel) not stands ever flight, does not laugh or smile, let alone cry or move.
The scene takes place in the house of a professor of literature, during a cold winter, while a raging unidentified war. Could be set today or a century ago, but it does not matter. In the background, and conformism a university library, the only place in town where there is still a little 'heat. The three protagonists, in fact, Professor, his assistant Daniel and the latter's girlfriend, Marina, a change As time goes on, but while two of them (the teacher and the girl) in a sense "is forgiveness, "the guy keeps, even in the face of growing difficulties, a kind of moral rectitude.
But maybe it's cold the protagonist of the story. It fills the bones and the heart, alters the personality, but in different way - visible and otherwise - in the protagonists. Marina seems to suffer more than others: she thinks about and bend "a lot" in an attempt to warm himself by proposing to use as fuel the wonderful teacher's library. At the end of the other accepted. And here begins a sort of game of power between the three, who try to resist as long as possible is preferred that the literature and in this way, however, one discovers the hidden passions, the shame (the professor who loves an author instead ridiculed and despised by the students), but eventually the books will end and will remain cold and the bombings.
Germana Brizzolari
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