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La vie devant soi
Sign茅 Ajar, ce roman re莽ut le prix Goncourt en 1975. Histoire d'amour d'un petit gar莽on arabe pour une tr猫s vieille femme juive : Momo se d茅bat contre les six 茅tages que Madame Rosa ne veut plus monter et contre la vie parce que " 莽a ne pardonne pas " et parce qu'il n'est " pas n茅cessaire d'avoir des raisons pour avoir peur ". Le petit gar莽on l'aidera 脿 se cacher dans son " trou juif ", elle n'ira pas mourir 脿 l'h么pital et pourra ainsi b茅n茅ficier du droit sacr茅 " des peuples 脿 disposer d'eux-m锚mes " qui n'est pas respect茅 par l'Ordre des m茅decins. Il lui tiendra compagnie jusqu'脿 ce qu'elle meure et m锚me au-del脿 de la mort..
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First published September 14, 1975
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Romain Gary
166听books1,846听followersRomain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name
脡mile Ajar
.
Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: 拽爪讘, Russian: 袣邪褑械胁), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.
He later studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then in Paris. He learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force in Salon-de-Provence and in Avord Air Base, near Bourges. Following the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, he fled to England and under Charles de Gaulle served with the Free French Forces in Europe and North Africa. As a pilot, he took part in over 25 successful offensives logging over 65 hours of air time.
He was greatly decorated for his bravery in the war, receiving many medals and honors.
After the war, he worked in the French diplomatic service and in 1945 published his first novel. He would become one of France's most popular and prolific writers, authoring more than thirty novels, essays and memoirs, some of which he wrote under the pseudonym of 脡mile Ajar. He also wrote one novel under the pseudonym of Fosco Sinibaldi and another as Shatan Bogat.
In 1952, he became secretary of the French Delegation to the United Nations in New York, and later in London (in 1955).
In 1956, he became Consul General of France in Los Angeles.
He is the only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice. This prize for French language literature is awarded only once to an author. Gary, who had already received the prize in 1956 for Les racines du ciel , published La vie devant soi under the pseudonym of 脡mile Ajar in 1975. The Acad茅mie Goncourt awarded the prize to the author of this book without knowing his real identity. A period of literary intrigue followed. Gary's little cousin Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'脡mile Ajar .
Gary's first wife was the British writer, journalist, and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch (author of The Wilder Shores of Love ). They married in 1944 and divorced in 1961. From 1962 to 1970, Gary was married to the American actress Jean Seberg, with whom he had a son, Alexandre Diego Gary.
He also co-wrote the screenplay for the motion picture, The Longest Day and co-wrote and directed the 1971 film Kill! , starring his now ex-wife Seberg.
Suffering from depression after Seberg's 1979 suicide, Gary died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on December 2, 1980 in Paris, France though he left a note which said specifically that his death had no relation with Seberg's suicide.
Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: 拽爪讘, Russian: 袣邪褑械胁), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.
He later studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then in Paris. He learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force in Salon-de-Provence and in Avord Air Base, near Bourges. Following the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, he fled to England and under Charles de Gaulle served with the Free French Forces in Europe and North Africa. As a pilot, he took part in over 25 successful offensives logging over 65 hours of air time.
He was greatly decorated for his bravery in the war, receiving many medals and honors.
After the war, he worked in the French diplomatic service and in 1945 published his first novel. He would become one of France's most popular and prolific writers, authoring more than thirty novels, essays and memoirs, some of which he wrote under the pseudonym of 脡mile Ajar. He also wrote one novel under the pseudonym of Fosco Sinibaldi and another as Shatan Bogat.
In 1952, he became secretary of the French Delegation to the United Nations in New York, and later in London (in 1955).
In 1956, he became Consul General of France in Los Angeles.
He is the only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice. This prize for French language literature is awarded only once to an author. Gary, who had already received the prize in 1956 for Les racines du ciel , published La vie devant soi under the pseudonym of 脡mile Ajar in 1975. The Acad茅mie Goncourt awarded the prize to the author of this book without knowing his real identity. A period of literary intrigue followed. Gary's little cousin Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'脡mile Ajar .
Gary's first wife was the British writer, journalist, and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch (author of The Wilder Shores of Love ). They married in 1944 and divorced in 1961. From 1962 to 1970, Gary was married to the American actress Jean Seberg, with whom he had a son, Alexandre Diego Gary.
He also co-wrote the screenplay for the motion picture, The Longest Day and co-wrote and directed the 1971 film Kill! , starring his now ex-wife Seberg.
Suffering from depression after Seberg's 1979 suicide, Gary died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on December 2, 1980 in Paris, France though he left a note which said specifically that his death had no relation with Seberg's suicide.
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November 9, 2023
One of the most beautiful and optimistic books I have ever read, The Life Before Us is a masterpiece. Romain Gary wrote it under a pseudonym, Emile Ajar, and thus became to only person to win the French Goncourt Prize twice. In fact, it was only after his tragic death that the identity of the mysterious but astounding write Ajar was revealed to by Romain Gary.
The story is told by Momo, an infant of prostitution in an illegal boarding house run by the aging Madame Rosa, well past her prime but who still "defended herself" from time to time. Momo lives with other children of prostitutes and is a fount of wisdom and consciousness that - despite his hilarious vocabulary of words used in the wrong sense but which reveal even more about his sensibility - surprises and amuses us at every turn of the page:
"The first thing I can tell you is that we lived on the 6th floor without an elevator and for Madame Rosa with all those pounds she carried on only two legs, it was a real source of daily life, with all its worried and pains." (p.1)
"i believe that the injust sleep the best because they don't give a shit, while the righteous cannot close their eyes and feel guilty about everything." (p. 39)
"'It is not necessary to have reasons to be scared, Momo'
That is something I never forgot because it is the truest thing i ever heard." (p.63)
"I think that to live, you need to start young, because later you lose all your value and nobody will give you a break." (p.88)
"I was so happy that I wanted to die because you must seize happiness when it is there before you" (p. 96)
I could not possibly render justice to the story of Momo and Madame Rosa with Momo's friends Monsieur Hamil and his book of Victor Hugo (which in his dementia he confuses with the Qu'ran), Madame Lolo (the Senegalese ex-boxer transvestite who works the Bois de Boulogne) or the wonderful Nadine...I encourage you - particularly in this dark moment for world politics at the eve of the Drumpftastrophe- to take refuge with Momo and Madame Rosa. Like Momo says in closing the book, "We must love."
(All translations are mine from the Folio Classics edition in the original French)
The story is told by Momo, an infant of prostitution in an illegal boarding house run by the aging Madame Rosa, well past her prime but who still "defended herself" from time to time. Momo lives with other children of prostitutes and is a fount of wisdom and consciousness that - despite his hilarious vocabulary of words used in the wrong sense but which reveal even more about his sensibility - surprises and amuses us at every turn of the page:
"The first thing I can tell you is that we lived on the 6th floor without an elevator and for Madame Rosa with all those pounds she carried on only two legs, it was a real source of daily life, with all its worried and pains." (p.1)
"i believe that the injust sleep the best because they don't give a shit, while the righteous cannot close their eyes and feel guilty about everything." (p. 39)
"'It is not necessary to have reasons to be scared, Momo'
That is something I never forgot because it is the truest thing i ever heard." (p.63)
"I think that to live, you need to start young, because later you lose all your value and nobody will give you a break." (p.88)
"I was so happy that I wanted to die because you must seize happiness when it is there before you" (p. 96)
I could not possibly render justice to the story of Momo and Madame Rosa with Momo's friends Monsieur Hamil and his book of Victor Hugo (which in his dementia he confuses with the Qu'ran), Madame Lolo (the Senegalese ex-boxer transvestite who works the Bois de Boulogne) or the wonderful Nadine...I encourage you - particularly in this dark moment for world politics at the eve of the Drumpftastrophe- to take refuge with Momo and Madame Rosa. Like Momo says in closing the book, "We must love."
(All translations are mine from the Folio Classics edition in the original French)
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#讴鬲丕亘鈥屫堌з嗃宊丿乇冲賲鬲乇賵
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 丿賵 倬蹖丕賲 賲賴賲 丿丕卮鬲. 賳禺爻鬲貙 丌賳讴賴 丿乇 丿乇賴賲鈥屫臂屬� 丕賵囟丕毓 賵 賵禺蹖賲鈥屫臂屬� 卮乇丕蹖胤貙 丿乇 夭蹖乇夭賲蹖賳蹖鈥屫臂屬� 噩丕賴丕 賴賲 賲賲讴賳 丕爻鬲 乇賵夭蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿 丿賵亘丕乇賴 亘鬲丕亘丿 賵 亘賴 丕賳爻丕賳 賳賵乇 賵 诏乇賲丕 亘亘禺卮丿貙 趩賳丕賳讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 賲賵賲賵 丕蹖賳趩賳蹖賳 卮丿. 丕蹖賳鈥屬囏� 蹖毓賳蹖 倬丕爻鈥屫ж簇� 丕賲蹖丿 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖. 蹖毓賳蹖 鬲丕 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丿乇賵賳 卮讴爻鬲 賳禺賵乇丿賴 亘丕卮蹖貙 倬蹖乇賵夭 丕蹖賳 亘丕夭蹖 賴爻鬲蹖
倬蹖丕賲 丿賵賲 讴鬲丕亘貙 賴賲丕賳 毓賳賵丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賵丿貙 蹖毓賳蹖 "夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屬� 丿乇 倬蹖卮 乇賵" 讴賴 丿賵 賲賮賴賵賲 賲賴賲 丕诏夭蹖爻鬲丕賳爻蹖丕賱蹖爻鬲蹖 - 丌夭丕丿蹖 賵 賲爻卅賵賱蹖鬲 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 - 乇丕 鬲丿丕毓蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 夭賳丿诏蹖 賴賲蹖卮賴 倬蹖卮 乇賵蹖 賲丕爻鬲 賵 賲丕 賲丨讴賵賲 亘賴 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 賴爻鬲蹖賲 讴賴 丌賳 乇丕 丿乇 賴賲蹖賳 賳賯胤賴 亘賴 倬丕蹖丕賳 亘乇爻丕賳蹖賲 蹖丕 夭賳丿賴 亘賲丕賳蹖賲 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴賳蹖賲 賵 毓卮賯 亘賵乇夭蹖賲. 賲賴賲 賳蹖爻鬲 倬蹖乇夭賳蹖 68 爻丕賱賴 賵 乇賵 亘賴 賲賵鬲 亘丕卮蹖 蹖丕 讴賵丿讴蹖 亘蹖鈥屭┴� 賵 睾乇賯 丿乇 亘蹖趩丕乇诏蹖. 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 亘丕 鬲賵爻鬲貙 賴賲丕賳 爻乇夭賲蹖賳 賲賵毓賵丿鬲貙 丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲 夭賳丿诏蹖賽 賴賲蹖卮賴 倬蹖卮賽 乇賵蹖賽 鬲賵
賳讴鬲賴鈥屰� 噩丕賱亘 賵 鬲讴丕賳鈥屫囐嗀団€屰� 讴鬲丕亘貙 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 賲蹖丕賳 夭賳丿诏蹖 卮禺氐蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賵 丨賵丕丿孬 賵 讴丕乇丕讴鬲乇鈥屬囏й� 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й屫� 丕爻鬲. 賲丨鬲賵丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й� 丕賵 賲賱睾賲賴鈥屫й� 丕夭 丨賵丕丿孬 賵 鬲噩乇亘蹖丕鬲 卮禺氐蹖 禺賵丿卮 丕爻鬲 賵 賲蹖丕賳 丌賳趩賴 丕賵 禺賱賯 讴乇丿賴 賵 丌賳趩賴 亘乇 丕賵 诏匕卮鬲賴 倬蹖賵爻鬲诏蹖 毓噩蹖亘 賵 乇賵卮賳蹖 賵噩賵丿 丿丕乇丿. 賵賱蹖 爻賵丕賱蹖 讴賴 亘丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 丕孬乇卮 丿乇 匕賴賳賲 丕蹖噩丕丿 卮丿貙 丕蹖賳 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕賵 賳蹖夭 賲丕賳賳丿 亘乇丕鬲蹖诏丕賳 亘乇丕蹖 賲乇诏 禺賵丿禺賵丕爻鬲賴鈥屰� 禺賵丿 丕夭 賲丿鬲鈥屬囏� 賯亘賱 亘乇賳丕賲賴 乇蹖夭蹖 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿責 丌賳趩賴 讴賴 賲賵賲賵 賵 乇夭丕 禺丕賳賲 亘乇 爻乇 丌賳 亘賴 鬲賵丕賮賯 賲蹖鈥屫必迟嗀� - 丨賯 賲乇诏 (蹖丕 亘賴 賯賵賱 賲賵賲賵 丨賯 爻賻賯賻胤 讴乇丿賳) - 鬲賳賴丕 倬賳噩 爻丕賱 亘毓丿 亘乇丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 噩丕賲賴鈥屰� 毓賲賱 賲蹖鈥屬举堌簇� 賵 丕蹖賳 趩賳蹖賳 丌禺乇蹖賳 倬丕夭賱 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 乇丕夭丌賲蹖夭 賲蹖丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏� 賵 賵賯丕蹖毓 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屫ж� 讴丕賲賱 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�
丿乇 賲賵乇丿 鬲乇噩賲賴 賵 爻丕賳爻賵乇
禺丕賳賲 诏賱爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 鬲乇噩賲賴鈥� 丕蹖賳 丕孬乇貙 鬲賱丕卮 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘乇丕蹖 丕賲丕賳鬲鈥屫ж臂� 賵 賵賮丕丿丕乇蹖 亘賴 賲鬲賳 丕氐賱蹖 賵 賲賯丕賵賲鬲 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 爻丕賳爻賵乇 丕賳噩丕賲 丿丕丿賴 (賵 賴賲蹖賳 丕賲乇 賴賲 亘丕毓孬 賲賲賳賵毓鈥屫з勜з嗀簇ж� 卮丿賳 讴鬲丕亘 诏卮鬲賴). 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賵噩賵丿 丿乇 趩賳丿 賯爻賲鬲 賳爻亘鬲丕 噩夭蹖蹖 賴賲 亘丕 丨匕賮蹖丕鬲蹖 乇賵亘乇賵 卮丿賲 (卮丕蹖丿 丕蹖賳 鬲賳賴丕 賲禺鬲氐 亘賴 賳爻禺賴鈥屰� 丕賮爻鬲 賲賳 賵 丕賯丿丕賲 賳卮乇 倬蹖卮诏丕賲 亘丕卮丿). 丨鬲蹖 鬲氐賵蹖乇 讴賳丕蹖蹖 乇賵蹖 噩賱丿 賴賲 丿乇 丕賯丿丕賲蹖 毓噩蹖亘 丿爻鬲鈥屭┴ж臂� 卮丿賴 賵 賯賱亘 爻乇禺 乇賳诏 丕夭 乇賵蹖 丌賳 丨匕賮 卮丿賴
#讴鬲丕亘鈥屫堌з嗃宊丿乇冲賲鬲乇賵
July 19, 2019
丕賵賱 蹖賴 丿賲賽 卮賲丕 诏乇賲 亘賴 禺丕賳賲 诏賱爻鬲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屭�. 趩賯丿乇 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳 鬲乇噩賲賴 噩爻丕乇鬲 賵 賵賮丕丿丕乇蹖 亘賴 禺乇噩 丿丕丿賴 亘賵丿賳.
丿賵賲貙 丕噩丕夭賴 亘丿蹖賳 亘诏賲 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 賳丕胤賵乇丿卮鬲 賲蹖鈥屭嗀必ㄛ屫�. *胤乇賮丿丕乇賴丕蹖 賴賵賱丿賳 讴丕賱賮蹖賱丿 亘丕 賱賳诏 讴賮卮 丿賳亘丕賱卮 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀�.* 賲賳 禺賵丿賲 丕夭 毓丕卮賯丕賳 爻蹖賳賴鈥屭嗀и� 爻賱蹖賳噩乇賲貙 丕賲丕
乇賵賲賳 诏丕乇蹖 賴賲 丕賱丕賳 丨爻丕亘蹖 鬲賵蹖 賯賱亘賲 噩丕 賵丕 讴乇丿賴. 賲丕 亘丕 蹖賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲蹖 胤乇賮蹖賲 讴賴 禺毓賱蹖 亘丿亘禺鬲賴! 亘賴鈥屬呚官嗀й� 賵丕賯毓蹖 讴賱賲賴! 賵 鬲賵蹖 丕蹖賳 賴賲賴 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖貙 丿乇賳賴丕蹖鬲賽 胤賳夭 賵 亘丕 賳诏丕賴 馗乇蹖賮 賵 乇蹖夭亘蹖賳 賵 賳丕亘蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳卮賵 鬲毓乇蹖賮 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�! 蹖賴 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 丕賵賳鈥屬傌� 丕蹖賳 賳诏丕賴 胤賳夭 賵 禺丕氐 賵 噩丿蹖丿賴 讴賴 丕夭 賮乇胤 賯乇丕亘鬲 丿蹖丿卮 禺賳丿賴鈥屫� 賲蹖鈥屭屫辟�!
乇蹖賵蹖賵賴丕蹖 亘趩賴鈥屬囏� 丕賵賳鈥屬傌� 禺賵亘 亘賵丿賳 讴賴 賳蹖丕夭蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 賲賳 倬購乇丨乇賮蹖 讴賳賲. 賮賯胤 亘诏賲 倬丕蹖丕賳鈥屫ㄙ嗀� 毓丕賱蹖 亘賵丿. 丿睾賱鈥屫ㄘж槽屸€屬囏й屰� 讴賴 爻乇 賲乇诏 乇夭丕 丿乇賲蹖鈥屫⒇辟� 鬲丕 亘丕夭賲 讴賳丕乇卮 亘丕卮賴貙 賯卮賳诏 賳卮賵賳 賲蹖鈥屫� 丕蹖賳 丌丿賲 夭蹖乇 丿爻鬲 趩賴 讴爻蹖 鬲乇亘蹖鬲 卮丿賴 賵 趩賯丿 乇賵卮 鬲兀孬蹖乇 诏匕丕卮鬲賴. 丿乇 毓蹖賳 丨丕賱 賴賵卮 賵 匕讴丕賵鬲 賲賵賲賵 乇賵 賴賲 賳卮賵賳 賲蹖鈥屫�. 丕賵賳 鬲蹖讴賴鈥屫й� 賴賲 讴賴 亘丕亘丕卮 亘毓丿 蹖丕夭丿賴 爻丕賱 倬蹖丿丕 賲蹖鈥屫促� 賵 賲蹖鈥屫⒇� 丿賳亘丕賱卮 賵 丿睾賱鈥屫ㄘж槽屸€屬囏й� 乇夭丕 賲毓乇讴賴鈥屫池�! 丕蹖賳鈥屬傌� 禺賵亘 亘賵丿 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 丕夭 丕蹖賳 氐賮丨丕鬲 毓讴爻 亘诏蹖乇賲貙 丕賲丕 賲蹖鈥屫必驰屫� 噩夭蹖蹖丕鬲 蹖丕丿賲 亘乇賴 賵 亘乇诏乇丿賲 亘禺賵賳賲卮 丕賵賳鈥屬傌� 賲孬賱 亘丕乇 丕賵賱 亘丕賴丕卮 丨丕賱 賳讴賳賲. 乇賵賲賳 诏丕乇蹖 毓噩亘 卮禺氐蹖鬲 丿賳蹖丕丿蹖丿賴 賵 毓賲蹖賯蹖賴. 丕蹖賳 倬蹖賵賳丿蹖 讴賴 亘蹖賳 乇夭丕蹖 蹖賴賵丿蹖 賵 賲賵賲賵蹖 賲爻賱賲賵賳 亘賵丿貙 亘丕 賴賲踿 丨賵丕卮蹖鈥� 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 禺蹖賱蹖 禺賵卮诏賱 賳卮爻鬲賴 亘賵丿. 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丕賵賳鈥屬傌� 噩爻丕乇鬲 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賵 亘賴 賴乇 爻賲鬲蹖 亘亘乇賴貙 賲丕 賲蹖鈥屬矩佰屫臂屬�.
蹖賴 毓丕賱賲 賯賱亘 亘乇丕鬲貙 乇賵賲賳 诏丕乇蹖鈥屫з�. 禺賵卮 亘禺賵丕亘蹖.
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January 6, 2021
FIGLIO DI PUTTANA
Foto di Patrcik Zachmann.
Queste cose ve le dico subito per risparmiarvi delle emozioni dopo. Da vivo aveva i migliori venticinque metri di marciapiede a Pigalle鈥�
Mohammed, meglio noto come Mom貌, 猫 un figlio di puttana.
O almeno cos矛 crede, e lo crede perch茅 gli hanno fatto credere che sua madre esercitasse la professione, cio猫, la madre di tutti i mestieri, quello pi霉 antico, la prostituta. Come poi avr脿 modo di appurare.
Non ha mai conosciuto sua madre. E se 猫 per questo, neppure suo padre.
Vive da Madame Rosa, che viene dalla Polonia via Auschwitz, 猫 ebrea, ma mangia il prosciutto, per貌 si ricorda sempre di far rispettare il ramadan al piccolo Mom貌, che invece di religione non s鈥檌nteressa e preferirebbe di gran lunga continuare a mangiare anche durante il digiuno musulmano, invece di andare a rubacchiare qualcosa nei negozi della zona.
Foto di Patrcik Zachmann.
Zona che 猫 il XX arrondissement, Belleville, ben noto melting pot. Anche nel 1975 quando 猫 uscito questo magnifico romanzo ambientato nel 1970.
Ma per tornare a Madame Rosa, che ha un cuore grande come i suoi novantacinque chili, che sono faticosi da trascinare su per le scale per sei piani senza ascensore con solo due gambe, anche lei, Madame Rosa, ha fatto la professione, nel senso che 猫 stata una puttana, prima e dopo Auschwitz, luogo nel quale 猫 finita in quanto ebrea e non perch茅 puttana.
Madame Rosa gestisce una pensione senza famiglia per bambini nati per sbaglio, e cio猫 tiene in casa - beh, forse, 鈥榗asa鈥� 猫 una parola grossa, in quanto si tratta di una soffitta con una stanza o poco pi霉 - tiene alcuni bambini abbandonati, tra cui anche quelli che le affidano le prostitute che fanno il mestiere e non possono accudire un figlietto. Mom貌 猫 tra questi sette otto nove dieci, forse meno forse pi霉, ma pi霉 spesso meno: e per Mom貌 Madame Rosa riceve un contributo economico dalla Stato francese di trecento euro al mese, che le fa molto comodo e al quale non vuole proprio rinunciare: quindi 猫 ben contenta quando arriva il ramadan perch茅 cos矛 lascia Mom貌 a digiuno e risparmia franchi.
In ogni caso, mangiato o digiunato, Mom貌 resta in forma olimpica.
脠 una gran bella storia d鈥檃more quella tra il piccolo Mom貌 e Madame Rosa, di quelle che durano per sempre.
鈥漀on c鈥櫭� bisogno di motivi per avere paura, Mom貌鈥�. Questa non me la sono mai dimenticata, perch茅 猫 la cosa pi霉 vera che ho mai sentito dire.
Mom貌 e Madame Rosa nel primo film basato sul romanzo, stesso titolo, diretto da Mosh茅 Mizrahi nel 1977 vinse l鈥橭scar come miglior film straniero e Simone Signoret fu premiata col C茅sar per la migliore attrice.
In questo bel libro la prima magia che mi ha conquistato senza se e senza ma 猫 la lingua che Gary mette in bocca al suo protagonista io narrante, Mom貌 l鈥檃rabo che parla anche ebraico, questo bambino che non 猫 mai stato bambino, di et脿 incerta, forse otto o nove o dieci ma magari quattordici, che a scuola non hanno voluto, che non sa chi siano i suoi genitori, mai visto n茅 conosciuto n茅 mamma n茅 pap脿, che cresce per lo pi霉 per strada e vive in una Parigi multietnica multicolore multiconfessionale e multi tante altre cose come ho gi脿 avuto l鈥檕nore. Una lingua nata mischiando e incrociando e adattando e storpiando, quel che sente, che afferra, che percepisce e che trattiene. Una lingua che esprime i suoi pensieri e il suo grande cuoricino intelligente in frasi galoppanti e fantasiose che fanno ridere anche quando fanno piangere.
Mom貌 diventa nero nel secondo e recente adattamento (2020) per Netflix, firmato dal figlio di Sophia Loren che interpreta Madame Rosa.
Mi sono sentito subito a casa leggendo questo bel romanzo. Non tanto perch茅 猫 una rilettura, quanto perch茅 ho sentito suonare un campanellino, e un nome a me molto caro s鈥櫭� acceso come una candela e davanti agli occhi rivedevo il suo primo capolavoro, I quattrocento colpi.
Aria di famiglia che va oltre l鈥檈ssere sia Gary che Truffaut innamorati di cinema, letteratura e critica; l鈥檃vere entrambi lo stesso schema familiare (padre assente e sconosciuto, figura materna determinante); l鈥檈ssere entrambi figli di padre ebreo, ma per entrambi l鈥檃nima ebrea rappresentava soprattutto attenzione e interesse per la vita ai margini, l鈥檜manit脿 non integrata, quella diversa; l鈥檈ssere tutti e due spiriti liberi, 鈥渢eneri e crudeli鈥�, critici del proprio lavoro, tormentati, con una sensibilit脿 tendente alla malinconia, un'indipendenza al limite della solitudine e paradossalmente instancabili curiosi della natura umana; il ricorso di entrambi a pseudonimi, come se una personalit脿 sola non bastasse, una vita sola non fosse sufficiente (Roman Kacew si 猫 firmato come Romain Gary, come 脡mile Ajar, tra l鈥檃ltro proprio per questo bel romanzo, come Shatan Bogat e come Fosco Sinibaldi, che sarebbe un omaggio a Garibaldi. Dall鈥檃ltra parte non si pu貌 dimenticare il magnifico alter ego cinematografico di Truffaut, l鈥橝ntoine Doinel magistralmente interpretato quattro volte di Jean-Pierre L茅aud); l鈥檈ssere entrambi uomini che amavano le donne, per usare il titolo di un altro eccellente film di Truffaut. Oltre tutto ci貌, si tratta di aria di famiglia, di tono e sensibilit脿 simile.
Ma bisogna capirla, perch茅 la vita era l鈥檜nica cosa che le restava. La gente tiene alla vita pi霉 che a tutto il resto, 猫 anche buffo se si pensa a tutte le belle cose che ci sono al mondo.
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Foto di Patrcik Zachmann.
Queste cose ve le dico subito per risparmiarvi delle emozioni dopo. Da vivo aveva i migliori venticinque metri di marciapiede a Pigalle鈥�
Mohammed, meglio noto come Mom貌, 猫 un figlio di puttana.
O almeno cos矛 crede, e lo crede perch茅 gli hanno fatto credere che sua madre esercitasse la professione, cio猫, la madre di tutti i mestieri, quello pi霉 antico, la prostituta. Come poi avr脿 modo di appurare.
Non ha mai conosciuto sua madre. E se 猫 per questo, neppure suo padre.
Vive da Madame Rosa, che viene dalla Polonia via Auschwitz, 猫 ebrea, ma mangia il prosciutto, per貌 si ricorda sempre di far rispettare il ramadan al piccolo Mom貌, che invece di religione non s鈥檌nteressa e preferirebbe di gran lunga continuare a mangiare anche durante il digiuno musulmano, invece di andare a rubacchiare qualcosa nei negozi della zona.
Foto di Patrcik Zachmann.
Zona che 猫 il XX arrondissement, Belleville, ben noto melting pot. Anche nel 1975 quando 猫 uscito questo magnifico romanzo ambientato nel 1970.
Ma per tornare a Madame Rosa, che ha un cuore grande come i suoi novantacinque chili, che sono faticosi da trascinare su per le scale per sei piani senza ascensore con solo due gambe, anche lei, Madame Rosa, ha fatto la professione, nel senso che 猫 stata una puttana, prima e dopo Auschwitz, luogo nel quale 猫 finita in quanto ebrea e non perch茅 puttana.
Madame Rosa gestisce una pensione senza famiglia per bambini nati per sbaglio, e cio猫 tiene in casa - beh, forse, 鈥榗asa鈥� 猫 una parola grossa, in quanto si tratta di una soffitta con una stanza o poco pi霉 - tiene alcuni bambini abbandonati, tra cui anche quelli che le affidano le prostitute che fanno il mestiere e non possono accudire un figlietto. Mom貌 猫 tra questi sette otto nove dieci, forse meno forse pi霉, ma pi霉 spesso meno: e per Mom貌 Madame Rosa riceve un contributo economico dalla Stato francese di trecento euro al mese, che le fa molto comodo e al quale non vuole proprio rinunciare: quindi 猫 ben contenta quando arriva il ramadan perch茅 cos矛 lascia Mom貌 a digiuno e risparmia franchi.
In ogni caso, mangiato o digiunato, Mom貌 resta in forma olimpica.
脠 una gran bella storia d鈥檃more quella tra il piccolo Mom貌 e Madame Rosa, di quelle che durano per sempre.
鈥漀on c鈥櫭� bisogno di motivi per avere paura, Mom貌鈥�. Questa non me la sono mai dimenticata, perch茅 猫 la cosa pi霉 vera che ho mai sentito dire.
Mom貌 e Madame Rosa nel primo film basato sul romanzo, stesso titolo, diretto da Mosh茅 Mizrahi nel 1977 vinse l鈥橭scar come miglior film straniero e Simone Signoret fu premiata col C茅sar per la migliore attrice.
In questo bel libro la prima magia che mi ha conquistato senza se e senza ma 猫 la lingua che Gary mette in bocca al suo protagonista io narrante, Mom貌 l鈥檃rabo che parla anche ebraico, questo bambino che non 猫 mai stato bambino, di et脿 incerta, forse otto o nove o dieci ma magari quattordici, che a scuola non hanno voluto, che non sa chi siano i suoi genitori, mai visto n茅 conosciuto n茅 mamma n茅 pap脿, che cresce per lo pi霉 per strada e vive in una Parigi multietnica multicolore multiconfessionale e multi tante altre cose come ho gi脿 avuto l鈥檕nore. Una lingua nata mischiando e incrociando e adattando e storpiando, quel che sente, che afferra, che percepisce e che trattiene. Una lingua che esprime i suoi pensieri e il suo grande cuoricino intelligente in frasi galoppanti e fantasiose che fanno ridere anche quando fanno piangere.
Mom貌 diventa nero nel secondo e recente adattamento (2020) per Netflix, firmato dal figlio di Sophia Loren che interpreta Madame Rosa.
Mi sono sentito subito a casa leggendo questo bel romanzo. Non tanto perch茅 猫 una rilettura, quanto perch茅 ho sentito suonare un campanellino, e un nome a me molto caro s鈥櫭� acceso come una candela e davanti agli occhi rivedevo il suo primo capolavoro, I quattrocento colpi.
Aria di famiglia che va oltre l鈥檈ssere sia Gary che Truffaut innamorati di cinema, letteratura e critica; l鈥檃vere entrambi lo stesso schema familiare (padre assente e sconosciuto, figura materna determinante); l鈥檈ssere entrambi figli di padre ebreo, ma per entrambi l鈥檃nima ebrea rappresentava soprattutto attenzione e interesse per la vita ai margini, l鈥檜manit脿 non integrata, quella diversa; l鈥檈ssere tutti e due spiriti liberi, 鈥渢eneri e crudeli鈥�, critici del proprio lavoro, tormentati, con una sensibilit脿 tendente alla malinconia, un'indipendenza al limite della solitudine e paradossalmente instancabili curiosi della natura umana; il ricorso di entrambi a pseudonimi, come se una personalit脿 sola non bastasse, una vita sola non fosse sufficiente (Roman Kacew si 猫 firmato come Romain Gary, come 脡mile Ajar, tra l鈥檃ltro proprio per questo bel romanzo, come Shatan Bogat e come Fosco Sinibaldi, che sarebbe un omaggio a Garibaldi. Dall鈥檃ltra parte non si pu貌 dimenticare il magnifico alter ego cinematografico di Truffaut, l鈥橝ntoine Doinel magistralmente interpretato quattro volte di Jean-Pierre L茅aud); l鈥檈ssere entrambi uomini che amavano le donne, per usare il titolo di un altro eccellente film di Truffaut. Oltre tutto ci貌, si tratta di aria di famiglia, di tono e sensibilit脿 simile.
Ma bisogna capirla, perch茅 la vita era l鈥檜nica cosa che le restava. La gente tiene alla vita pi霉 che a tutto il resto, 猫 anche buffo se si pensa a tutte le belle cose che ci sono al mondo.
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June 24, 2015
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蹖讴 乇賵夭 賵賯鬲蹖 丌賯丕蹖 賵丕賱賵賲亘丕 賴賲乇丕賴 賯亘蹖賱賴 丕卮 丌賲丿賳丿 鬲丕 噩賱賵蹖 乇夭丕 禺丕賳賲 賲毓乇讴賴 亘诏蹖乇賳丿 鬲丕 丕夭 丨丕賱鬲 亘賴鬲 丿乇卮 亘蹖丕賵乇賳丿 丌賯丕蹖 卮丕蹖丕賳 賴賲 倬卮鬲 爻乇卮丕賳 賵丕乇丿 卮丿. 賱丕亘丿 卮賳蹖丿賴 亘賵丿 讴賴 乇夭丕 禺丕賳賲 丿丕乇丿 賲蹖賲蹖乇丿 賵 丌賲丿賴 亘賵丿 鬲丕 賲乇丿賳卮 乇丕 亘亘蹖賳丿. 倬蹖卮 丕夭 丕蹖賳 亘乇丕蹖鬲丕賳 丕夭卮 丨乇賮蹖 賳夭丿賴 亘賵丿賲 趩賵賳 丌丿賲 賳趩爻亘蹖 亘賵丿 賵 賲賳 賵 乇夭丕 禺丕賳賲 夭蹖丕丿 亘丕賴丕卮 噩賵乇 賳亘賵丿蹖賲. 鬲賳賴丕 丕蹖乇丕賳蹖 賲賳胤賯賴 亘賱 賵蹖賱 亘賵丿 賵 胤亘賯賴 爻賵賲 爻丕禺鬲賲丕賳 賲丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖讴乇丿. 讴爻蹖 賳賲蹖丿丕賳爻鬲 趩賴 卮丿賴 讴賴 丕夭 丕蹖賳噩丕 爻乇 丿乇 丌賵乇丿賴. 卮睾賱 丕卮 賴賲 賲毓賱賵賲 賳亘賵丿貙 丨鬲蹖 噩丕讴蹖卮 賴賲 賳亘賵丿. 賮乇丕賳爻賵蹖 賴賲 丿乇爻鬲 賵 丨爻丕亘蹖 亘賱丿 賳亘賵丿 丨乇賮 亘夭賳丿. 丕夭 賲賳 丿賱 禺賵卮蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲 賵賱蹖 亘毓囟蹖 賵賯鬲 賴丕 讴賴 丕夭 丿爻鬲 亘趩賴 噩... 賴丕 讴賱丕賮賴 賲蹖卮丿賲 賵 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕賲蹖賱 禺乇賮鬲 賲蹖卮丿 賵賲乇丕 亘賴 噩丕蹖 賲賵賲賵貙 賵蹖讴鬲賵乇 氐丿丕 賲蹖讴乇丿 賵 乇夭丕 禺丕賳賲 賴賲 丕夭 丌賳 丨丕賱丕鬲 "睾蹖亘鬲" 亘賴卮 丿爻鬲 賲蹖丿丕丿 丕夭 乇賵蹖 亘蹖 丨賵氐賱诏蹖 丿賲 丿乇 丌賯丕蹖 卮丕蹖丕賳 賲蹖 倬賱讴蹖丿賲 賵 诏丕賴蹖 丕賵賯丕鬲 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 丕蹖賳 讴丕乇賲 亘賴賲 賮丨卮 賲蹖丿丕丿 賵 亘毓囟蹖 賵賯鬲 賴丕 賴賲 丕噩丕夭賴 賲蹖丿丕丿 賵丕乇丿 禺丕賳賴 丕卮 亘卮賵賲 賵 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖卮 乇丕 賳诏丕賴 讴賳賲. 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕蹖 亘賴 丿乇丿 賳禺賵乇蹖 丿丕卮鬲 賵 丕蹖賳 乇丕 賴乇 丿賮毓賴 亘賴卮 賲蹖 诏賮鬲賲. 诏賮鬲賳 丕蹖賳 丨乇賮賲 亘爻鬲诏蹖 亘賴 丕蹖賳 丿丕卮鬲 讴賴 讴蹖 賲蹖禺賵丕賴賲 丕夭 丌賳 噩丕 亘蹖乇賵賳 亘乇賵賲 趩賵賳 賴乇 丿賮毓賴 讴賴 丕蹖賳 丨乇賮 乇丕 亘賴卮 賲蹖夭丿賲 丕夭 毓氐亘丕賳蹖鬲 爻乇禺 賲蹖卮丿 賵 亘丕 丕乇丿賳诏蹖 亘蹖乇賵賳賲 賲蹖讴乇丿 賵 亘丕 賱賴噩賴 蹖 賮乇丕賳爻賵蹖 賲鬲賲丕蹖賱 亘賴 鬲乇讴蹖 賲乇丕 賲丕丿乇 噩... 氐丿丕蹖賲 賲蹖讴乇丿 賵 丕蹖賳 鬲賳賴丕 賳賯胤賴 丕卮鬲乇丕讴 丌賯丕蹖 卮丕蹖丕賳 亘丕 乇夭丕 禺丕賳賲 亘賵丿 趩賵賳 賴乇 丿賵蹖卮丕賳 賵賯鬲蹖 毓氐亘丕賳蹖 賲蹖卮丿賳丿 賲丕丿乇 噩... 亘賵丿賳賲 乇丕 亘賴 乇禺賲 賲蹖讴卮蹖丿賳丿. 賵賱蹖 賯亘賱 丕蹖賳讴賴 亘蹖乇賵賳賲 讴賳丿 亘賴 禺蹖丕賱 禺賵丿卮 賲蹖禺賵丕爻鬲 趩蹖夭 蹖丕丿賲 丿賴丿. 賮賯胤 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 亘蹖诏 亘賳诏 賵 讴蹖賴丕賳 賵 鬲讴丕賲賱 賵 爻賱賵賱 賵 賲賵賱讴賵賱 賵 爻乇卮鬲 丕賳爻丕賳蹖鬲 賵 趩乇賳丿蹖丕鬲 丿蹖诏乇蹖 卮亘蹖賴 丕蹖賳賴丕 丨乇賮 賲蹖夭丿. 丿讴鬲乇 讴丕鬲夭 賲蹖诏賮鬲 讴賴 丕蹖賳 賳賵毓 丕賳爻丕賳 賴丕 丕夭 丿爻鬲 乇賮鬲賴 丕賳丿 賵 亘丕蹖丿 亘賴 丨丕賱 禺賵丿卮丕賳 乇賴丕蹖卮丕賳 讴乇丿 鬲丕 鬲賱賮 卮賵賳丿 趩賵賳 亘賴 賴蹖趩 丿乇丿蹖 賳賲蹖禺賵乇賳丿. 丕賱亘鬲賴 丨乇賮丕蹖 丿讴鬲乇 讴丕鬲夭 乇丕 亘賴 丌賯丕蹖 卮丕蹖丕賳 賳賲蹖诏賮鬲賲 趩賵賳 丌丿賲 胤賮賱讴蹖 亘賵丿 賵 丿賱賲 亘乇丕蹖卮 賲蹖爻賵禺鬲. 賴乇 賵賯鬲 丕賵 乇丕 賲蹖丿蹖丿賲 蹖丕丿 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕賲蹖賱 賲蹖 丕賮鬲丕丿賲 丌賳賯丿乇 讴賴 亘丕 賴賲 鬲賮丕賵鬲 丿丕卮鬲賳丿. 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕賲蹖賱 賲蹖诏賮鬲 讴賴 丕賵 蹖讴 讴丕賮乇 鬲賲丕賲 毓蹖丕乇 丕爻鬲 賵 賲賳 賳亘丕蹖丿 噩賵乇賲 乇丕 亘丕 丕賵 噩賵乇 讴賳賲. 丕賴 诏賴卮 亘诏蹖乇賳丿. 丕賱丕賳 讴賴 賮讴乇卮 乇丕 賲蹖讴賳賲 賲蹖亘蹖賳賲 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕賲蹖賱 亘丕 丌賳 賴賲賴 禺乇賮鬲蹖 丕卮 丿乇爻鬲 賲蹖诏賮鬲賴 賵 丨丕賱丕 讴賮乇賲 賲蹖诏蹖乇丿 讴賴 趩乇丕 丿賱賲 亘乇丕蹖 丌賯丕蹖 卮丕蹖丕賳 賲蹖爻賵禺鬲. 亘丕蹖丿 賴賲丕賳 賲賵賯毓 亘賴 丌賯丕蹖 賳丿丕 丌賲丿賴 賲蹖诏賮鬲賲 鬲丕 丕丿亘卮 讴賳丿 丌賳賯丿乇 讴賴 丌賯丕蹖 卮丕蹖丕賳 賲睾夭 賲賳 乇丕 倬乇 丕夭 趩乇賳丿蹖丕鬲蹖 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿 讴賴 亘毓丿 丕蹖賳 賴賲賴 爻丕賱 賴賳賵夭賲 蹖丕丿賲 賲丕賳丿賴 丕賳丿. 亘毓囟蹖 賵賯鬲丕 讴賳丕乇 倬蹖丕丿賴 乇賵 亘丕 趩鬲乇賲 丌乇鬲賵乇 賲蹖賳卮蹖賳賲 賵 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳賲 讴賴 丕诏乇 乇賵夭蹖 倬賱蹖爻 蹖丕 鬲乇賵乇蹖爻鬲 亘卮賲 丕賵賱 丕夭 賴賲賴 丨爻丕亘 丌賯丕蹖 卮丕蹖丕賳 乇丕 賲蹖乇爻賲 趩賵賳 讴賴 趩乇賳丿 诏賮鬲賳 亘夭乇诏鬲乇蹖賳 噩乇賲 丕爻鬲. 亘賴 賯賵賱 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕賲蹖賱貙 鬲噩乇亘賴 讴賴賳賴 丕賲 乇丕 亘丕賵乇 讴賳蹖丿.
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February 18, 2022
鈥淧eople seem to care more about life than anything else, which is funny when you think of all the wonderful things there are in this world.鈥�
How does one live a life and make the most of it? Are joy and optimism even possible for those who live in poverty and harsh living conditions? What about those without family? The young narrator of this book, Momo, teaches us a bit about how it is possible to survive and experience happiness even given an unconventional sort of life. Momo lives with Madame Rosa in a seedy section of Paris. She鈥檚 a former prostitute and an Auschwitz survivor who now takes care of the children of prostitutes. Momo adores her and will do anything for her in return for the love and home she鈥檚 given him. Some of the children see a parent on occasion, between tricks. Not so with Momo. He has no memory of a mother or father, except for a story that hints at sadness and violence. Madame Rosa is overweight and no longer able to make it up the stairs. Her mental health is also in decline; she seems to be suffering from some form of dementia. Momo, still only a child, takes on the role of caretaker. He begins to wonder what life would be like without Madame Rosa. He knows that day can come at any time; that fateful day when someone is snatched from our lives, never to return.
鈥淢onsieur Hamil, can somebody live without love?鈥�
Besides Madame Rosa, Momo lives amongst a wonderfully eclectic bunch of characters. Monsieur Hamil, the widowed carpet seller who worships the words of Victor Hugo: 鈥淢onsieur Hamil keeps saying the word is louder than the sword.鈥� Madame Lola, a Senegalese transvestite and former heavyweight champion: 鈥淢adame Lola is very beautiful for a man except her voice, which dates from the day when she was a heavyweight champion. She couldn鈥檛 help it because the voice is connected with the balls, which were the great tragedy of her life.鈥� Doctor Katz, the physician who tirelessly treats the people of the neighborhood, regardless of religious standing or background: 鈥淚 often thought when I looked at Dr. Katz that if somebody had offered me a father it鈥檚 him I鈥檇 have chosen.鈥� There are also pimps, a beautiful woman named Nadine and her family, and a jovial group of African tribesmen who brought the picnic to Madame Rosa when she could no longer move from her chair. And like many other young children that dream up imaginary friends, Momo鈥檚 fondness was towards the inanimate: 鈥淢y best friend at that time was an umbrella by the name of Arthur. I dressed him from top to toe.鈥� Such a vibrant cast of human beings that became family to Momo, showing us how love and friendship have no boundaries, despite those imposed on us by geography, politics and religion.
The story is told from Momo鈥檚 point of view, and the author skillfully conveys the voice of a young adolescent boy. It鈥檚 funny despite the current of underlying sadness. Momo often uses words that he鈥檚 clearly heard from the mouths of adults but doesn鈥檛 quite understand. I often laughed at some of his linguistic mishaps. The love between Madame Rosa and Momo is straightforward and unsentimental. No mushy, dramatic fluff here. There鈥檚 actually quite a lot to take in, including the treatment of marginalized communities. Immigrants, the elderly, the very young, and those living unconventional lives are all at risk of being overlooked or abused. How they band together and take care of one another despite the odds was hopeful and beautiful. The idea of what it means to both live and die with dignity is also examined with a great sense of irony and compassion.
鈥淚f Madame Rosa had been a dog, she鈥檇 already have been put out of her misery, but people are much nicer to dogs than to human beings, who aren鈥檛 allowed to die without suffering.鈥�
I highly recommend this slim novel, alternately titled Madame Rosa, if you can get your hands on a copy. I felt a sense of dread throughout, yet was uplifted at the same time. What could have been a thoroughly depressing topic was handled with such humor and honesty that you are never thrown too far into the murky waters of misery. I had heard there was a film adaptation 鈥� two, in fact. I went for the most recent version, which was well done, but seemed to veer away from the true character of Momo a bit too much for my taste. But Sophia Loren played a marvelous Madame Rosa, though she certainly didn鈥檛 fit the description I had in my head given Momo鈥檚 sketch of her: 鈥淪he had more ass and bosom than anybody you ever heard of, and when she looked at herself in the glass, she always made a big smile, like she was trying to vamp herself.鈥� I鈥檓 going to look for the 1977 film which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and see if the character of Momo is handled with more care.
鈥淟ife isn鈥檛 for everybody, only for the chosen few.鈥�
How does one live a life and make the most of it? Are joy and optimism even possible for those who live in poverty and harsh living conditions? What about those without family? The young narrator of this book, Momo, teaches us a bit about how it is possible to survive and experience happiness even given an unconventional sort of life. Momo lives with Madame Rosa in a seedy section of Paris. She鈥檚 a former prostitute and an Auschwitz survivor who now takes care of the children of prostitutes. Momo adores her and will do anything for her in return for the love and home she鈥檚 given him. Some of the children see a parent on occasion, between tricks. Not so with Momo. He has no memory of a mother or father, except for a story that hints at sadness and violence. Madame Rosa is overweight and no longer able to make it up the stairs. Her mental health is also in decline; she seems to be suffering from some form of dementia. Momo, still only a child, takes on the role of caretaker. He begins to wonder what life would be like without Madame Rosa. He knows that day can come at any time; that fateful day when someone is snatched from our lives, never to return.
鈥淢onsieur Hamil, can somebody live without love?鈥�
Besides Madame Rosa, Momo lives amongst a wonderfully eclectic bunch of characters. Monsieur Hamil, the widowed carpet seller who worships the words of Victor Hugo: 鈥淢onsieur Hamil keeps saying the word is louder than the sword.鈥� Madame Lola, a Senegalese transvestite and former heavyweight champion: 鈥淢adame Lola is very beautiful for a man except her voice, which dates from the day when she was a heavyweight champion. She couldn鈥檛 help it because the voice is connected with the balls, which were the great tragedy of her life.鈥� Doctor Katz, the physician who tirelessly treats the people of the neighborhood, regardless of religious standing or background: 鈥淚 often thought when I looked at Dr. Katz that if somebody had offered me a father it鈥檚 him I鈥檇 have chosen.鈥� There are also pimps, a beautiful woman named Nadine and her family, and a jovial group of African tribesmen who brought the picnic to Madame Rosa when she could no longer move from her chair. And like many other young children that dream up imaginary friends, Momo鈥檚 fondness was towards the inanimate: 鈥淢y best friend at that time was an umbrella by the name of Arthur. I dressed him from top to toe.鈥� Such a vibrant cast of human beings that became family to Momo, showing us how love and friendship have no boundaries, despite those imposed on us by geography, politics and religion.
The story is told from Momo鈥檚 point of view, and the author skillfully conveys the voice of a young adolescent boy. It鈥檚 funny despite the current of underlying sadness. Momo often uses words that he鈥檚 clearly heard from the mouths of adults but doesn鈥檛 quite understand. I often laughed at some of his linguistic mishaps. The love between Madame Rosa and Momo is straightforward and unsentimental. No mushy, dramatic fluff here. There鈥檚 actually quite a lot to take in, including the treatment of marginalized communities. Immigrants, the elderly, the very young, and those living unconventional lives are all at risk of being overlooked or abused. How they band together and take care of one another despite the odds was hopeful and beautiful. The idea of what it means to both live and die with dignity is also examined with a great sense of irony and compassion.
鈥淚f Madame Rosa had been a dog, she鈥檇 already have been put out of her misery, but people are much nicer to dogs than to human beings, who aren鈥檛 allowed to die without suffering.鈥�
I highly recommend this slim novel, alternately titled Madame Rosa, if you can get your hands on a copy. I felt a sense of dread throughout, yet was uplifted at the same time. What could have been a thoroughly depressing topic was handled with such humor and honesty that you are never thrown too far into the murky waters of misery. I had heard there was a film adaptation 鈥� two, in fact. I went for the most recent version, which was well done, but seemed to veer away from the true character of Momo a bit too much for my taste. But Sophia Loren played a marvelous Madame Rosa, though she certainly didn鈥檛 fit the description I had in my head given Momo鈥檚 sketch of her: 鈥淪he had more ass and bosom than anybody you ever heard of, and when she looked at herself in the glass, she always made a big smile, like she was trying to vamp herself.鈥� I鈥檓 going to look for the 1977 film which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and see if the character of Momo is handled with more care.
鈥淟ife isn鈥檛 for everybody, only for the chosen few.鈥�
July 12, 2019
乇丕賵蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘賴 丨丿蹖 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賳蹖 賵 卮蹖乇蹖賳 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 乇賵 鬲賵氐蹖賮 賲蹖讴賳賴 讴賴 丕夭 賵爻胤 丕賵賳鈥屬囐呝� 鬲丕乇蹖讴蹖 賵 賮賯乇 賵 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖 賲蹖卮賴 亘丕夭 賴賲 丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇 亘賵丿...
賲丨賲丿 丿賴 爻丕賱賴 賮乇夭賳丿 蹖讴 乇賵爻倬蹖賴 賵 丿乇 讴賳丕乇 倬蹖乇夭賳蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖讴賳賴 讴賴 卮睾賱卮 賳诏賴丿丕乇蹖 丕夭 亘趩賴鈥� 賴丕蹖 夭賳鈥屬囏й� 賮丕丨卮賴 丕爻鬲. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 鬲賵 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲丨賱賴 賴丕蹖 賮賯蹖乇賳卮蹖賳 賵 亘丿賳丕賲 賮乇丕賳爻賴 丕賳賮丕賯 賲蹖賮鬲賴貙 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賮賯乇 賵 爻蹖丕賴蹖 賳賲丕蹖丕賳鈥屫臂屬� 趩蹖夭賴貙 丕賲丕 賳诏丕賴 賲丨賲丿 倬乇 丕夭 噩乇蹖丕賳 夭賳丿诏蹖 賵 丕賲蹖丿賴 賵 賴賲蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賵 噩匕丕亘 讴乇丿賴.
丕夭 爻賲鬲 丿蹖诏賴 賯乇丕乇 丿丕丿賳 丿蹖賳鈥屬囏� (丕爻賱丕賲 賵 蹖賴賵丿) 讴賳丕乇 賴賲 蹖讴 爻丕禺鬲丕乇 亘蹖 賳馗蹖乇 乇賵 亘乇丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘賵噩賵丿 丌賵乇丿賴. 倬丕蹖丕賳 亘賳丿蹖 賴賲 丿乇 乇丕爻鬲丕蹖 禺胤 丕氐賱蹖 乇賵丕蹖鬲 讴丕賲賱丕 亘賴 噩丕 賵 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 亘賵丿.
賵 賳賯胤賴 賯賵鬲 丕氐賱蹖 賴賲 鬲乇噩賲賴 鬲賲蹖夭 賱蹖賱蹖 诏賱爻鬲丕賳賴 讴賴 亘丿賵賳 囟乇亘賴 夭丿賳 亘賴 賲鬲賳 丕氐賱蹖 (賴賲賵賳胤賵乇 讴賴 禺賵丿卮 賴賲 丿乇 倬蹖卮诏賮鬲丕乇 讴鬲丕亘 丕卮丕乇賴 讴乇丿賴) 丕蹖賳賯丿乇 乇賵賵賳 賵 氐乇蹖丨 丕乇丕卅賴 卮丿賴.
賲丨賲丿 丿賴 爻丕賱賴 賮乇夭賳丿 蹖讴 乇賵爻倬蹖賴 賵 丿乇 讴賳丕乇 倬蹖乇夭賳蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖讴賳賴 讴賴 卮睾賱卮 賳诏賴丿丕乇蹖 丕夭 亘趩賴鈥� 賴丕蹖 夭賳鈥屬囏й� 賮丕丨卮賴 丕爻鬲. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 鬲賵 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲丨賱賴 賴丕蹖 賮賯蹖乇賳卮蹖賳 賵 亘丿賳丕賲 賮乇丕賳爻賴 丕賳賮丕賯 賲蹖賮鬲賴貙 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賮賯乇 賵 爻蹖丕賴蹖 賳賲丕蹖丕賳鈥屫臂屬� 趩蹖夭賴貙 丕賲丕 賳诏丕賴 賲丨賲丿 倬乇 丕夭 噩乇蹖丕賳 夭賳丿诏蹖 賵 丕賲蹖丿賴 賵 賴賲蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賵 噩匕丕亘 讴乇丿賴.
丕夭 爻賲鬲 丿蹖诏賴 賯乇丕乇 丿丕丿賳 丿蹖賳鈥屬囏� (丕爻賱丕賲 賵 蹖賴賵丿) 讴賳丕乇 賴賲 蹖讴 爻丕禺鬲丕乇 亘蹖 賳馗蹖乇 乇賵 亘乇丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘賵噩賵丿 丌賵乇丿賴. 倬丕蹖丕賳 亘賳丿蹖 賴賲 丿乇 乇丕爻鬲丕蹖 禺胤 丕氐賱蹖 乇賵丕蹖鬲 讴丕賲賱丕 亘賴 噩丕 賵 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 亘賵丿.
賵 賳賯胤賴 賯賵鬲 丕氐賱蹖 賴賲 鬲乇噩賲賴 鬲賲蹖夭 賱蹖賱蹖 诏賱爻鬲丕賳賴 讴賴 亘丿賵賳 囟乇亘賴 夭丿賳 亘賴 賲鬲賳 丕氐賱蹖 (賴賲賵賳胤賵乇 讴賴 禺賵丿卮 賴賲 丿乇 倬蹖卮诏賮鬲丕乇 讴鬲丕亘 丕卮丕乇賴 讴乇丿賴) 丕蹖賳賯丿乇 乇賵賵賳 賵 氐乇蹖丨 丕乇丕卅賴 卮丿賴.
March 30, 2025
Many of those of us with a thinly veiled past have a Daemon, which demands to be fed. That fact is also the shadow that drives mental illness. 鈥淔eed me! Feed me,鈥� it screams at me: and a chance circumstance offers me the option of releasing it in a book review.
Otherwise I鈥檇 be eaten alive.
Percy Shelley, like most creative writers or artists, knew it too. And it called out to him to be released as well. It was the advent of the Romantic Era. Even romance novels have a thinly veiled past!
This book is Romain Gary鈥檚 daemon unleashed, too. It was do or die time. He even published it under his Real name, for a change. It was a hit in France, of course. It won the Goncourt.
It鈥檚 a pity you can鈥檛 see an English version, though you can watch a sanitized - without Gary鈥檚 rude argot - French version on YouTube. The complete film may be viewed there! Its title is Madame Rosa.
Hate to tell you, but this review will be another 鈥渋n progress鈥� one. You see, I鈥檓 forced to periodically EXORCISE the evil of that foul daemon within me. Or else be poisoned by it! So the review is destined to morph.
As the doomed reporter, Howard, on the seventies film Network screamed: now I鈥檓 mad as heck and can鈥檛 take it anymore.
***
This novel is just SO touching!
Madame Rosa runs a home for traumatized orphans in the Jewish quarter, like the young Arab narrator - 鈥楳omo,鈥� short for Mohammed - for whom brute trauma has blanked out whole sections of his past. I live with that every day. My trauma in the Royally Awful Hospital, similarly, is now largely a void.
And the tell-all sessions in isolation were likewise chemically blanked out in my head.
But the young orphan in the novel has no other life than his destroyed one. He even gets ugly. When he receives a hug from a neighbouring stranger, his shocked gratitude knows no bounds.
What is this thing called Love? It lives beneath the surface of our destroyed self.
Our adoptive Collie/Shepherd Brandy (RIP, old amigo) was a rescue pet. Get one like her and you will see a remarkable acceleration of your wellness quotient! She was SO grateful to us for taking her in from the storm.
I sense the author was a 鈥榬escue鈥�, too.
***
And I was rescued as well. My rescuer鈥檚 name is Common Sense.
Mr. Sense lives secretly (and so ordinarily that we often miss him) in an Aspie鈥檚 soul, hidden - unless that handicapped kid sees him clearly and as he really is. And he can only see him if that kid reveals himself to himself through others.
That was my alchemical method on 欧宝娱乐 - revealing myself to myself in ever more telling reviews. And taking to heart the comments!
鈥淛鈥檃i perc茅 un trou dans la voile de toile鈥� - in the chemical blitz of my meds鈥�
Just as Gary digs the dirt on himself here! And thus finds his self, formerly lost in a void.
The bottom line is to no longer be afraid of one鈥檚 self, or of what that self may say or do - until it's time to show your left hand that the right one (common sense) knows what it's up to.
Then it鈥檚 the final coup de Grace -
In reviews which fully display 鈥渓e coeur mis 脿 nu鈥︹€�
Of stunning Neverwhere books like THIS!
Otherwise I鈥檇 be eaten alive.
Percy Shelley, like most creative writers or artists, knew it too. And it called out to him to be released as well. It was the advent of the Romantic Era. Even romance novels have a thinly veiled past!
This book is Romain Gary鈥檚 daemon unleashed, too. It was do or die time. He even published it under his Real name, for a change. It was a hit in France, of course. It won the Goncourt.
It鈥檚 a pity you can鈥檛 see an English version, though you can watch a sanitized - without Gary鈥檚 rude argot - French version on YouTube. The complete film may be viewed there! Its title is Madame Rosa.
Hate to tell you, but this review will be another 鈥渋n progress鈥� one. You see, I鈥檓 forced to periodically EXORCISE the evil of that foul daemon within me. Or else be poisoned by it! So the review is destined to morph.
As the doomed reporter, Howard, on the seventies film Network screamed: now I鈥檓 mad as heck and can鈥檛 take it anymore.
***
This novel is just SO touching!
Madame Rosa runs a home for traumatized orphans in the Jewish quarter, like the young Arab narrator - 鈥楳omo,鈥� short for Mohammed - for whom brute trauma has blanked out whole sections of his past. I live with that every day. My trauma in the Royally Awful Hospital, similarly, is now largely a void.
And the tell-all sessions in isolation were likewise chemically blanked out in my head.
But the young orphan in the novel has no other life than his destroyed one. He even gets ugly. When he receives a hug from a neighbouring stranger, his shocked gratitude knows no bounds.
What is this thing called Love? It lives beneath the surface of our destroyed self.
Our adoptive Collie/Shepherd Brandy (RIP, old amigo) was a rescue pet. Get one like her and you will see a remarkable acceleration of your wellness quotient! She was SO grateful to us for taking her in from the storm.
I sense the author was a 鈥榬escue鈥�, too.
***
And I was rescued as well. My rescuer鈥檚 name is Common Sense.
Mr. Sense lives secretly (and so ordinarily that we often miss him) in an Aspie鈥檚 soul, hidden - unless that handicapped kid sees him clearly and as he really is. And he can only see him if that kid reveals himself to himself through others.
That was my alchemical method on 欧宝娱乐 - revealing myself to myself in ever more telling reviews. And taking to heart the comments!
鈥淛鈥檃i perc茅 un trou dans la voile de toile鈥� - in the chemical blitz of my meds鈥�
Just as Gary digs the dirt on himself here! And thus finds his self, formerly lost in a void.
The bottom line is to no longer be afraid of one鈥檚 self, or of what that self may say or do - until it's time to show your left hand that the right one (common sense) knows what it's up to.
Then it鈥檚 the final coup de Grace -
In reviews which fully display 鈥渓e coeur mis 脿 nu鈥︹€�
Of stunning Neverwhere books like THIS!
May 8, 2020
蹖讴蹖 丕夭 毓賱丕蹖賯 賲賳 禺賵丕賳丿賳 讴鬲丕亘 賵 丿蹖丿賳 賮蹖賱賲 丕賯鬲亘丕爻蹖 丌賳 丕爻鬲 (丿乇 氐賵乇鬲蹖 讴賴 賮蹖賱賲 丕賯鬲亘丕爻蹖 丌賳 爻丕禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 亘丕卮丿 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 丕賯鬲亘丕爻 賲鬲賵爻胤 乇賵 亘賴 亘丕賱丕). 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 蹖讴 賮蹖賱賲 丕賯鬲亘丕爻蹖 爻丕禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇賳丿賴鈥屰� 噩丕蹖夭賴鈥屰� 丕爻讴丕乇 亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 賮蹖賱賲 禺丕乇噩蹖 賵 賳丕賲夭丿 亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 賮蹖賱賲 禺丕乇噩蹖 诏賱丿賳 诏賱賵亘 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲. 丿乇 氐賵乇鬲蹖 讴賴 毓賱丕賯賴 賲賳丿 亘賵丿蹖丿 丕賵賱 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘禺賵丕賳蹖丿 賵 亘毓丿 賮蹖賱賲 乇丕 亘亘蹖賳蹖丿.
Madame Rosa (1977) 7.2
丕诏乇 趩蹖夭蹖 乇丕 禺賵亘 亘賱丿 亘丕卮賲貙 賴賲蹖賳 丿賵蹖丿賳 丕爻鬲. 亘丿賵賳 丿賵蹖丿賳 丿乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 賴蹖趩 讴丕乇蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 讴乇丿. 氐 21 讴鬲丕亘
乇夭丕 禺丕賳賲 賲蹖鈥屭佖� 倬丕蹖蹖賳 鬲賳賴 賵 賱賵蹖蹖 趩賴丕乇丿賴賲 賲賴賲鈥屫臂屬� 趩蹖夭賴丕蹖蹖 賴爻鬲賳丿 讴賴 賮乇丕賳爻賵蹖鈥屬囏� 丿丕乇賳丿. 氐 24 讴鬲丕亘
賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 丕蹖賳 诏賳丕賴鈥屭┴ж必з嗁嗀� 讴賴 乇丕丨鬲 賲蹖鈥屫堌жㄙ嗀� 趩賵賳 趩蹖夭蹖 丨丕賱蹖卮丕賳 賳蹖爻鬲 賵 亘乇毓讴爻貙 亘蹖鈥屭嗀з囏з� 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗁嗀� 丨鬲蹖 蹖讴 賱丨馗賴 趩卮賲 乇賵蹖 賴賲 亘诏匕丕乇賳丿貙 趩賵賳 賳诏乇丕賳 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 賴爻鬲賳丿. 丕诏乇 睾蹖乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 亘賵丿貙 亘蹖鈥屭嗀з� 賳賲蹖鈥屫簇嗀�. 氐 34 讴鬲丕亘
亘丿鬲乇蹖賳 趩蹖夭賴丕 賴賲蹖卮賴 丿乇 丿乇賵賳 丌丿賲 丕鬲賮丕賯 賲蹖鈥屫з佖�. 丕诏乇 丕鬲賮丕賯貙 丿乇 亘蹖乇賵賳 亘蹖賮鬲丿貙 賲孬賱 賵賯鬲蹖 讴賴 丕乇丿賳诏蹖 賲蹖鈥屫堌臂屬呚� 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 夭丿 亘賴 趩丕讴. 丕賲丕 丕夭 丿乇賵賳 睾蹖乇 賲賲讴賳 丕爻鬲. 賵賯鬲蹖 亘賴 丕蹖賳 丨丕賱鬲 丿趩丕乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堎呚� 賲蹖鈥屫堌з囐� 亘乇賵賲 亘蹖乇賵賳 賵 丿蹖诏乇 亘賴 賴蹖趩 讴噩丕 亘乇賳诏乇丿賲. 氐 47 讴鬲丕亘
趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘乇丕蹖賲 毓噩蹖亘 亘賵丿賴貙 丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕氐賵賱丕 丕卮讴 丿乇 亘乇賳丕賲賴鈥屰� 禺賱賯鬲 倬蹖卮 亘蹖賳蹖 卮丿賴. 蹖毓賳蹖 丌丿賲 亘賳丕爻鬲 诏乇蹖賴 讴賳丿. 亘丕蹖丿 倬蹖卮鈥屫ㄛ屬嗃� 卮丿賴 亘丕卮丿. 賵丕賯毓丕 讴賴 賴蹖趩 爻丕夭賳丿賴鈥屰� 賲丨鬲乇賲蹖 賴賲趩賴 讴丕乇蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 氐 67 讴鬲丕亘
賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 讴賴 賵賯鬲蹖 丿乇 丕蹖賳 亘丕乇賴 亘丕 丿讴鬲乇 讴丕鬲夭 氐丨亘鬲 讴乇丿賲貙 丨賯 丿丕卮鬲 亘诏賵蹖丿 讴賴 噩... 丿蹖丿賳鈥� 讴爻蹖貙 賮賯胤 亘賴 丿蹖丿 亘蹖賳賳丿賴 賲乇亘賵胤 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 氐 68 讴鬲丕亘
亘趩賴鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 賴乇賵蹖蹖賳 賲蹖鈥屫操嗁嗀� 亘賴 禺賵卮亘禺鬲蹖 賴賲蹖卮诏蹖 毓丕丿鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 讴丕乇卮丕賳 鬲賲丕賲 丕爻鬲貙 趩賵賳 禺賵卮亘禺鬲蹖 賵賯鬲蹖 丨爻 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 讴賴 讴賲 亘賵丿賳卮 乇丕 丨爻 讴賳蹖賲. 氐 73 讴鬲丕亘
丌賯丕蹖 賴丕賲蹖賱 賲蹖鈥屭堐屫� 讴賴 亘卮乇蹖鬲 賵蹖乇诏賵賱蹖 丕爻鬲 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 賯胤賵乇 夭賳丿诏蹖. 氐 82 讴鬲丕亘
乇賵蹖 夭賲蹖賳 丿乇丕夭 讴卮蹖丿賲. 趩卮賲鈥屬囏й屬� 乇丕 亘爻鬲賲 賵 鬲賲乇蹖賳 賲乇丿賳 讴乇丿賲. 丕賲丕 爻蹖賲丕賳 爻乇丿 亘賵丿 賵 鬲乇爻蹖丿賲 賲乇蹖囟 亘卮賵賲. 氐 83 讴鬲丕亘
丿乇 爻蹖賳賲丕 丌賳 賱丨馗賴鈥屫й� 乇丕 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕乇賲 讴賴 丌丿賲蹖 讴賴 亘賳丕爻鬲 亘賲蹖乇丿貙 賯亘賱 丕夭 賲乇诏 賲蹖鈥屭堐屫�: "亘丕卮丿 丌賯丕蹖丕賳貙 賵馗蹖賮賴鈥屫з� 乇丕 丕賳噩丕賲 丿賴蹖丿." 氐 96 讴鬲丕亘
賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭蹖 讴乇蹖賴鈥屫� 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 夭賵乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 鬲賵蹖 丨賱賯 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й屰� 亘趩倬丕賳賳丿 讴賴 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗁嗀� 丕夭 禺賵丿卮丕賳 丿賮丕毓 讴賳賳丿 賵 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з囐嗀� 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿賳 丕丿丕賲賴 丿賴賳丿. 氐 209 讴鬲丕亘
Madame Rosa (1977) 7.2
丕诏乇 趩蹖夭蹖 乇丕 禺賵亘 亘賱丿 亘丕卮賲貙 賴賲蹖賳 丿賵蹖丿賳 丕爻鬲. 亘丿賵賳 丿賵蹖丿賳 丿乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 賴蹖趩 讴丕乇蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 讴乇丿. 氐 21 讴鬲丕亘
乇夭丕 禺丕賳賲 賲蹖鈥屭佖� 倬丕蹖蹖賳 鬲賳賴 賵 賱賵蹖蹖 趩賴丕乇丿賴賲 賲賴賲鈥屫臂屬� 趩蹖夭賴丕蹖蹖 賴爻鬲賳丿 讴賴 賮乇丕賳爻賵蹖鈥屬囏� 丿丕乇賳丿. 氐 24 讴鬲丕亘
賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 丕蹖賳 诏賳丕賴鈥屭┴ж必з嗁嗀� 讴賴 乇丕丨鬲 賲蹖鈥屫堌жㄙ嗀� 趩賵賳 趩蹖夭蹖 丨丕賱蹖卮丕賳 賳蹖爻鬲 賵 亘乇毓讴爻貙 亘蹖鈥屭嗀з囏з� 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗁嗀� 丨鬲蹖 蹖讴 賱丨馗賴 趩卮賲 乇賵蹖 賴賲 亘诏匕丕乇賳丿貙 趩賵賳 賳诏乇丕賳 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 賴爻鬲賳丿. 丕诏乇 睾蹖乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 亘賵丿貙 亘蹖鈥屭嗀з� 賳賲蹖鈥屫簇嗀�. 氐 34 讴鬲丕亘
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趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘乇丕蹖賲 毓噩蹖亘 亘賵丿賴貙 丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕氐賵賱丕 丕卮讴 丿乇 亘乇賳丕賲賴鈥屰� 禺賱賯鬲 倬蹖卮 亘蹖賳蹖 卮丿賴. 蹖毓賳蹖 丌丿賲 亘賳丕爻鬲 诏乇蹖賴 讴賳丿. 亘丕蹖丿 倬蹖卮鈥屫ㄛ屬嗃� 卮丿賴 亘丕卮丿. 賵丕賯毓丕 讴賴 賴蹖趩 爻丕夭賳丿賴鈥屰� 賲丨鬲乇賲蹖 賴賲趩賴 讴丕乇蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 氐 67 讴鬲丕亘
賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 讴賴 賵賯鬲蹖 丿乇 丕蹖賳 亘丕乇賴 亘丕 丿讴鬲乇 讴丕鬲夭 氐丨亘鬲 讴乇丿賲貙 丨賯 丿丕卮鬲 亘诏賵蹖丿 讴賴 噩... 丿蹖丿賳鈥� 讴爻蹖貙 賮賯胤 亘賴 丿蹖丿 亘蹖賳賳丿賴 賲乇亘賵胤 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 氐 68 讴鬲丕亘
亘趩賴鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 賴乇賵蹖蹖賳 賲蹖鈥屫操嗁嗀� 亘賴 禺賵卮亘禺鬲蹖 賴賲蹖卮诏蹖 毓丕丿鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 讴丕乇卮丕賳 鬲賲丕賲 丕爻鬲貙 趩賵賳 禺賵卮亘禺鬲蹖 賵賯鬲蹖 丨爻 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 讴賴 讴賲 亘賵丿賳卮 乇丕 丨爻 讴賳蹖賲. 氐 73 讴鬲丕亘
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乇賵蹖 夭賲蹖賳 丿乇丕夭 讴卮蹖丿賲. 趩卮賲鈥屬囏й屬� 乇丕 亘爻鬲賲 賵 鬲賲乇蹖賳 賲乇丿賳 讴乇丿賲. 丕賲丕 爻蹖賲丕賳 爻乇丿 亘賵丿 賵 鬲乇爻蹖丿賲 賲乇蹖囟 亘卮賵賲. 氐 83 讴鬲丕亘
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賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭蹖 讴乇蹖賴鈥屫� 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 夭賵乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 鬲賵蹖 丨賱賯 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й屰� 亘趩倬丕賳賳丿 讴賴 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗁嗀� 丕夭 禺賵丿卮丕賳 丿賮丕毓 讴賳賳丿 賵 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з囐嗀� 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿賳 丕丿丕賲賴 丿賴賳丿. 氐 209 讴鬲丕亘
September 30, 2022
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 爻丕賱鈥屬囏ж池� 讴賴 丿丕乇賲卮 賵賱蹖 賴蹖趩賵賯鬲 賮乇氐鬲 賳賲蹖讴乇丿賲 亘乇賲 爻乇丕睾卮 賵 讴鬲丕亘丕蹖 丿蹖诏賴 丕蹖 趩卮賲賲賵 賲蹖诏乇賮鬲賳馃ゲ
丕賲丕 趩賴 丕卮鬲亘丕賴 亘夭乇诏蹖 賵丕賯毓丕 毓丕卮賯 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 卮丿賲
禺胤 亘賴 禺胤 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲.
丕賲丕 趩賴 丕卮鬲亘丕賴 亘夭乇诏蹖 賵丕賯毓丕 毓丕卮賯 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 卮丿賲
禺胤 亘賴 禺胤 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲.
May 26, 2020
Absolutely stunning narrator voice!
Romain Gary has so many different nuances (and pseudonyms!) that each book is a complete surprise. This one is no exception, and it manages the impossible balance of being incredibly brutal and heartbreakingly sweet and amazingly funny.
What is the brutal part?
A young boy grows up with an old lady in Belleville, a poor and crime-ridden part of Paris. He learns far too early to navigate a world of whores and pimps and drug addicts.
What is the sweet part?
Despite the hopelessness of the situation, there is friendship and love and tolerance in the story, where an ex-boxer and champion from S茅n茅gal can become a caring woman ("except for some natural limitations") who works as a transvestite prostitute but knocks out the dangerous maniacs ... where a Jewish obese ex-prostitute who survived Auschwitz can raise children according to the religion their prostitute/pimp parents wish for them ... where illness and weakness is dealt with because life doesn't forgive ...
What is the funny part?
The voice of the boy is unbelievable. He is so clever and yet so uneducated. He knows things most grown-ups have never heard of, and yet he misunderstands the words and mixes up the concepts. He analyses the world according to Belleville code, and the reader follows in bafflement.
In the end, there is brutally funny sweetness!
Romain Gary has so many different nuances (and pseudonyms!) that each book is a complete surprise. This one is no exception, and it manages the impossible balance of being incredibly brutal and heartbreakingly sweet and amazingly funny.
What is the brutal part?
A young boy grows up with an old lady in Belleville, a poor and crime-ridden part of Paris. He learns far too early to navigate a world of whores and pimps and drug addicts.
What is the sweet part?
Despite the hopelessness of the situation, there is friendship and love and tolerance in the story, where an ex-boxer and champion from S茅n茅gal can become a caring woman ("except for some natural limitations") who works as a transvestite prostitute but knocks out the dangerous maniacs ... where a Jewish obese ex-prostitute who survived Auschwitz can raise children according to the religion their prostitute/pimp parents wish for them ... where illness and weakness is dealt with because life doesn't forgive ...
What is the funny part?
The voice of the boy is unbelievable. He is so clever and yet so uneducated. He knows things most grown-ups have never heard of, and yet he misunderstands the words and mixes up the concepts. He analyses the world according to Belleville code, and the reader follows in bafflement.
In the end, there is brutally funny sweetness!
January 9, 2015
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 丿賯蹖賯丕 亘毓丿 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇禺鬲 夭蹖亘丕蹖 賲賳 禺賵賳丿賲 賵 賵丕賯毓丕 鬲丕 賲丿鬲 賴丕 賳賲蹖 禺賵丕賲 賴蹖趩 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 亘蹖 乇丨賲蹖 賴丕蹖 丿賳蹖丕 賲禺氐賵氐丕 亘丕 亘趩賴 賴丕 亘禺賵賳賲.卮丕蹖丿 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 賲蹖卮賴 丿乇 賴賲蹖賳 噩賲賱賴 丕夭 禺賵丿卮 禺賱丕氐賴 讴乇丿:
"賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭 讴乇蹖賴 鬲乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 夭賵乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 鬲賵蹖 丨賱賯 丌丿賲 賴丕蹖蹖 亘趩倬丕賳賳丿 讴賴 賳賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳賳丿 丕夭 禺賵丿卮丕賳 丿賮丕毓 讴賳賳丿 賵 賳賲蹖 禺賵丕賴賳丿 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿賳 丕丿丕賲賴 亘丿賴賳丿."
"賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭 讴乇蹖賴 鬲乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 夭賵乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 鬲賵蹖 丨賱賯 丌丿賲 賴丕蹖蹖 亘趩倬丕賳賳丿 讴賴 賳賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳賳丿 丕夭 禺賵丿卮丕賳 丿賮丕毓 讴賳賳丿 賵 賳賲蹖 禺賵丕賴賳丿 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿賳 丕丿丕賲賴 亘丿賴賳丿."
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April 25, 2025I may have a new favourite character: Momo, aged ten/going on fifty, the narrator of this book. His child's point of view underlaid with age-old wisdom has charmed me completely.
To think that Momo has been hiding among my books for years and years, carted across countries, shelved high and low, but always ignored in favour of some more grown-up narrator.
He might have continued to be ignored but for a recent review by 欧宝娱乐 friend Jeroen which made me realise that I had a neglected treasure right under my nose!
And indeed noses are not irrelevant to Momo's story.
Momo has an Arab nose. His foster mother, Madame Rosa, sixty-nine going on ninety, has a Jewish nose. Rarely in history have two such noses cared so much for each other.
Momo, named Mohammed by the Algerian man who claimed to be his father, was handed over to Madame Rosa's care after his mother's violent death, and he's lived ever since in Madame Rosa's over-perfumed apartment in a stinky run-down building that houses people from many different countries with one thing in common: they may live in France but they are all undocumented just like Momo and his foster-mother, and all living in fear of the authorities. And not only is Momo undocumented, he is also 'undated', "j'茅tais pas encore dat茅", as he likes to phrase it. One of the reasons I love Momo so much is his very creative use of adult language though he has never been to school.
Momo being 'undated' means he doesn't know when he was born, neither the day nor the year. His birthdays are simply the anniversary of the day he began living with Madame Rosa.
The day of his supposed tenth birthday takes up a big part of this book.
On that day, we get to follow Momo around the streets and avenues of 1970s Paris where he picks up cigarettes and bottle tops,
hangs out with women who work the same backstreets his mother and Madame Rosa did,
plays chess in a caf茅 with a blind Muslim who carries his holy book everywhere unaware that it is actually a copy of Les Mis茅rables,
is offered drink and drugs down some alleyway,
takes shelter from the rain in a venue where actors are dubbing a scene from a film,
becomes fascinated by the way the film is wound backwards as each actor adds their voice,
begins to rewind his own life in an effort to get a glimpse of his mother,
gets as far as a pair of high heeled boots and a short skirt,
can't can't can't see her face no matter how hard he rewinds,
returns to Madame Rosa's apartment where the doctor tells him she hasn't long to live,
considers how how how to say goodbye goodbye goodbye to Madame Rosa...
Now I've made you all sad?
Time for a song perhaps?
Who knows Van Morrison's Madame George?
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision sweeping into view
The click- and clacking of the high heeled shoes
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older now, with hat on, drinking wine
And the smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
On the cool night air like Shalimar
Outside they're making all the stops
Kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops
Goin' for cigarettes and matches in the shops
Happy taking Madame George
Oh, that's when you fall
Wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo, that's when you fall
Yeah, that's when you fall
When you fall into a trance
Sitting on a sofa playing games of chance
With your folded arms and history books you glance
Into the eyes of Madame George
And you think you'll buy the bag
You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag
In a corner playing dominoes in drag
The one and only Madame George
And then from outside the frosty window raps
She jumps up and says, "Lord have mercy, I think that it's the cops!"
And immediately drops everything she gots
Down into the street below
And you know you gotta go
On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row
Throwing pennies at the bridges down below
In the rain, hail, sleet, and snow
Say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
Say goodbye goodbye goodbye to Madame George
To think that Momo has been hiding among my books for years and years, carted across countries, shelved high and low, but always ignored in favour of some more grown-up narrator.
He might have continued to be ignored but for a recent review by 欧宝娱乐 friend Jeroen which made me realise that I had a neglected treasure right under my nose!
And indeed noses are not irrelevant to Momo's story.
Momo has an Arab nose. His foster mother, Madame Rosa, sixty-nine going on ninety, has a Jewish nose. Rarely in history have two such noses cared so much for each other.
Momo, named Mohammed by the Algerian man who claimed to be his father, was handed over to Madame Rosa's care after his mother's violent death, and he's lived ever since in Madame Rosa's over-perfumed apartment in a stinky run-down building that houses people from many different countries with one thing in common: they may live in France but they are all undocumented just like Momo and his foster-mother, and all living in fear of the authorities. And not only is Momo undocumented, he is also 'undated', "j'茅tais pas encore dat茅", as he likes to phrase it. One of the reasons I love Momo so much is his very creative use of adult language though he has never been to school.
Momo being 'undated' means he doesn't know when he was born, neither the day nor the year. His birthdays are simply the anniversary of the day he began living with Madame Rosa.
The day of his supposed tenth birthday takes up a big part of this book.
On that day, we get to follow Momo around the streets and avenues of 1970s Paris where he picks up cigarettes and bottle tops,
hangs out with women who work the same backstreets his mother and Madame Rosa did,
plays chess in a caf茅 with a blind Muslim who carries his holy book everywhere unaware that it is actually a copy of Les Mis茅rables,
is offered drink and drugs down some alleyway,
takes shelter from the rain in a venue where actors are dubbing a scene from a film,
becomes fascinated by the way the film is wound backwards as each actor adds their voice,
begins to rewind his own life in an effort to get a glimpse of his mother,
gets as far as a pair of high heeled boots and a short skirt,
can't can't can't see her face no matter how hard he rewinds,
returns to Madame Rosa's apartment where the doctor tells him she hasn't long to live,
considers how how how to say goodbye goodbye goodbye to Madame Rosa...
Now I've made you all sad?
Time for a song perhaps?
Who knows Van Morrison's Madame George?
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision sweeping into view
The click- and clacking of the high heeled shoes
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older now, with hat on, drinking wine
And the smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
On the cool night air like Shalimar
Outside they're making all the stops
Kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops
Goin' for cigarettes and matches in the shops
Happy taking Madame George
Oh, that's when you fall
Wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo, that's when you fall
Yeah, that's when you fall
When you fall into a trance
Sitting on a sofa playing games of chance
With your folded arms and history books you glance
Into the eyes of Madame George
And you think you'll buy the bag
You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag
In a corner playing dominoes in drag
The one and only Madame George
And then from outside the frosty window raps
She jumps up and says, "Lord have mercy, I think that it's the cops!"
And immediately drops everything she gots
Down into the street below
And you know you gotta go
On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row
Throwing pennies at the bridges down below
In the rain, hail, sleet, and snow
Say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
Say goodbye goodbye goodbye to Madame George
November 7, 2020
鈥滻 had fun for a while scaring cars by crossing in front of them at the last minute. People don鈥檛 like to run children over, and it gave me a kick to know I was making them nervous. They鈥檇 step on the brake like a ton of bricks to keep from hurting you, which isn鈥檛 much, but it鈥檚 better than nothing. I鈥檇 have liked to scare them even worse, but I wasn鈥檛 up to it yet. I hadn鈥檛 quite decided whether to join up with the police or the terrorists, all in good time. I鈥檇 see.鈥�
This passage reminded me of when I was a kid and my younger brother and I would stand out on either side of #9 Highway at dusk and act like we were holding a rope across the road. We always thought it was a victory when we got someone to stop. We would laugh until we cried whenever someone would fling an expletive at us as they roared onward.
Momo is for all intents and purposes an orphan. He is one of a number of kids being taken care of by a fat Jewish woman named Madame Rosa, a woman who peddled her ass until she became too fat and ugly to be of interest to her clients anymore. To make ends meet, she starts taking in the offspring of whores to raise. They will send her money when they can, and she will keep their kids out of the hands of the government. 鈥滿inors are wonderfully protected in France, and when there鈥檚 nobody to look after them the government throws them in jail for safekeeping.鈥� One of the biggest fears of Momo and Madame Rosa is a visit from social services. They will certainly sweep in and kidnap these kids to be hauled off to abusive institutions.
Romain Gary came back on my radar when I watched the movie Seberg (2019), starring Kristen Stewart. Gary was married to Jean Seberg from 1962-1970, though they remained confidants for the rest of their lives. When the actor playing Gary showed up on screen, it was one of those moments that still happens to me too often...why haven鈥檛 I ever read this guy? Finally, I鈥檝e rectified that, and there is now a checkmark next to Gary鈥檚 name on my lifetime reading list.
This book certainly has an identity crisis. It was titled The Life Before Us and later, when the movie came out based on the book, called Madame Rosa (1978). The book also briefly changed its name as well. To make things even more confusing, this book was originally published under the pen name Emile Ajar. Gary was so successful at hiding his identity with this name that he won the Prix Goncourt twice, once under his real name and as Ajar. A writer can only win this award once, so he had his cousin, who was publicly playing Emile Ajar, refuse the award. He and his cousin eventually had a major falling out over money, and Gary was decidedly cruel during the ongoing argument. Nothing like an angry writer letting loose his quiver of barbed words. Though, telling his cousin that he fucked his mother, even if it was true, was certainly a talented writer resorting to vulgarity to win a point. There is this point in the story when Momo says: 鈥滻 have always been someone else.鈥� That might be Romain Gary telling us why he felt so compelled to have another identity.
Seberg was hounded by the FBI for the last years of her life because of her association and sympathy for the Black Panthers. She died from an apparant suicide in her car in 1979. A little over a year later, Romain Gary also committed suicide and insisted in his note that his decision had nothing to do with Seberg鈥檚 death. I can still remember the first time I saw Seberg in the Godard movie Breathless (1960). She will forever be running down a Paris street in my mind.
Madame Rosa was in Auschwitz, and to remind herself that life can always be worse, she keeps a picture of Hitler under her bed. Whenever she becomes too depressed, Momo will grab that picture and thrust it under her nose to bring a smile to her face. She is deathly afraid of landing in the hands of doctors. 鈥滿omo, I don鈥檛 want to live just for the sake of medical science. I know I鈥檓 losing my mind and I don鈥檛 want to hang on for years in a coma just to make the doctors happy. For thirty-five years I gave my ass to the customers, and I鈥檓 not giving it to the doctors now.鈥� Momo loves spending time with her because, even though she is Jewish and he is an Arab, he knows they are the 鈥漵ame class of shit.鈥� He does everything he can to keep her alive.
One of my favorite characters is a transvestite named Madame Lola, who lives in the same building as Momo, who once was a boxer but now peddles her ass. Whenever a guy tries to get too rough with her, he doesn't realize he is taking on way more than he can handle. Lola helps Rosa and Moma financially and emotionally as they try to navigate the last months of Rosa鈥檚 life.
This is a short book and not really the type of subject matter that would catch my attention, but I have to say there are numerous poignant, sharply defined scenes that will certainly linger with me for a long time. It makes me believe that Gary was able to tap into a different part of himself when he wrote under the guise of Emile Ajar. As James Laughlin says in the Afterword: 鈥淕ary was Ajar...but who was 础箩补谤?鈥� For astute people who really knew Gary, which I wonder if anyone really knew him, there are clues in the texts of his Ajar books to reveal his identity. He admitted he was Emile Ajar in his suicide note. In the end, he embraced the other half of himself. I can only hope that at that moment he felt whole.
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This passage reminded me of when I was a kid and my younger brother and I would stand out on either side of #9 Highway at dusk and act like we were holding a rope across the road. We always thought it was a victory when we got someone to stop. We would laugh until we cried whenever someone would fling an expletive at us as they roared onward.
Momo is for all intents and purposes an orphan. He is one of a number of kids being taken care of by a fat Jewish woman named Madame Rosa, a woman who peddled her ass until she became too fat and ugly to be of interest to her clients anymore. To make ends meet, she starts taking in the offspring of whores to raise. They will send her money when they can, and she will keep their kids out of the hands of the government. 鈥滿inors are wonderfully protected in France, and when there鈥檚 nobody to look after them the government throws them in jail for safekeeping.鈥� One of the biggest fears of Momo and Madame Rosa is a visit from social services. They will certainly sweep in and kidnap these kids to be hauled off to abusive institutions.
Romain Gary came back on my radar when I watched the movie Seberg (2019), starring Kristen Stewart. Gary was married to Jean Seberg from 1962-1970, though they remained confidants for the rest of their lives. When the actor playing Gary showed up on screen, it was one of those moments that still happens to me too often...why haven鈥檛 I ever read this guy? Finally, I鈥檝e rectified that, and there is now a checkmark next to Gary鈥檚 name on my lifetime reading list.
This book certainly has an identity crisis. It was titled The Life Before Us and later, when the movie came out based on the book, called Madame Rosa (1978). The book also briefly changed its name as well. To make things even more confusing, this book was originally published under the pen name Emile Ajar. Gary was so successful at hiding his identity with this name that he won the Prix Goncourt twice, once under his real name and as Ajar. A writer can only win this award once, so he had his cousin, who was publicly playing Emile Ajar, refuse the award. He and his cousin eventually had a major falling out over money, and Gary was decidedly cruel during the ongoing argument. Nothing like an angry writer letting loose his quiver of barbed words. Though, telling his cousin that he fucked his mother, even if it was true, was certainly a talented writer resorting to vulgarity to win a point. There is this point in the story when Momo says: 鈥滻 have always been someone else.鈥� That might be Romain Gary telling us why he felt so compelled to have another identity.
Seberg was hounded by the FBI for the last years of her life because of her association and sympathy for the Black Panthers. She died from an apparant suicide in her car in 1979. A little over a year later, Romain Gary also committed suicide and insisted in his note that his decision had nothing to do with Seberg鈥檚 death. I can still remember the first time I saw Seberg in the Godard movie Breathless (1960). She will forever be running down a Paris street in my mind.
Madame Rosa was in Auschwitz, and to remind herself that life can always be worse, she keeps a picture of Hitler under her bed. Whenever she becomes too depressed, Momo will grab that picture and thrust it under her nose to bring a smile to her face. She is deathly afraid of landing in the hands of doctors. 鈥滿omo, I don鈥檛 want to live just for the sake of medical science. I know I鈥檓 losing my mind and I don鈥檛 want to hang on for years in a coma just to make the doctors happy. For thirty-five years I gave my ass to the customers, and I鈥檓 not giving it to the doctors now.鈥� Momo loves spending time with her because, even though she is Jewish and he is an Arab, he knows they are the 鈥漵ame class of shit.鈥� He does everything he can to keep her alive.
One of my favorite characters is a transvestite named Madame Lola, who lives in the same building as Momo, who once was a boxer but now peddles her ass. Whenever a guy tries to get too rough with her, he doesn't realize he is taking on way more than he can handle. Lola helps Rosa and Moma financially and emotionally as they try to navigate the last months of Rosa鈥檚 life.
This is a short book and not really the type of subject matter that would catch my attention, but I have to say there are numerous poignant, sharply defined scenes that will certainly linger with me for a long time. It makes me believe that Gary was able to tap into a different part of himself when he wrote under the guise of Emile Ajar. As James Laughlin says in the Afterword: 鈥淕ary was Ajar...but who was 础箩补谤?鈥� For astute people who really knew Gary, which I wonder if anyone really knew him, there are clues in the texts of his Ajar books to reveal his identity. He admitted he was Emile Ajar in his suicide note. In the end, he embraced the other half of himself. I can only hope that at that moment he felt whole.
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September 13, 2021
賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘丕 賱丨賳 胤賳夭诏賵賳賴 賵 讴賲丿蹖 爻蹖丕賴卮 丿丕乇賴 賲蹖诏賴 賲丕 丌丿賲丕 乇丕 賲噩亘賵乇 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖讴賳蹖賲 丨鬲蹖 丕诏賴 亘丕毓孬 夭噩乇 讴卮蹖丿賳卮賵賳 亘卮賴!!
賵賯鬲蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 趩賳丿 爻丕賱 亘毓丿 禺賵丿卮賵 賲蹖讴卮賴 诏賵蹖丕 丕蹖賳 倬丕夭賱 讴丕賲賱 賲蹖卮賴 賵 賳卮賵賳 賲蹖丿賴 趩乇丕 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 禺賵丿卮賵 讴卮鬲賴.
丕賵賱蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖 亘賵丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 禺賵賳丿賲貙 賵丕賯毓丕 亘蹖卮 丕夭 丨丿 丕賳鬲馗丕乇賲 禺賵亘 亘賵丿.
诏賵蹖丕 蹖賴 賮蹖賱賲 賴賲 丕夭卮 丿乇爻鬲 讴乇丿賳貙 禺蹖賱蹖 賲卮鬲丕賯賲 賮蹖賱賲卮賵 亘亘蹖賳賲.
賵賯鬲蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 趩賳丿 爻丕賱 亘毓丿 禺賵丿卮賵 賲蹖讴卮賴 诏賵蹖丕 丕蹖賳 倬丕夭賱 讴丕賲賱 賲蹖卮賴 賵 賳卮賵賳 賲蹖丿賴 趩乇丕 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 禺賵丿卮賵 讴卮鬲賴.
丕賵賱蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖 亘賵丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 禺賵賳丿賲貙 賵丕賯毓丕 亘蹖卮 丕夭 丨丿 丕賳鬲馗丕乇賲 禺賵亘 亘賵丿.
诏賵蹖丕 蹖賴 賮蹖賱賲 賴賲 丕夭卮 丿乇爻鬲 讴乇丿賳貙 禺蹖賱蹖 賲卮鬲丕賯賲 賮蹖賱賲卮賵 亘亘蹖賳賲.
August 9, 2020
I still associate Summer with reading French books. That鈥檚 a routine we had when growing up. The shadow of Romain Gary belongs to those Summers-- with all the enchantment that memories from one鈥檚 youth hold for all of us-- since his was one of names on my father鈥檚 bookshelves. So, I am certain I have read some of his works but cannot remember which. No matter, I am delighted I have picked his books up again, for this novel has been one of the most memorable reads this year.
La vie devant soi was published in 1975 under the penname 脡mile Ajar and it won the Goncourt that same year -- it was chosen over one by Patrick Modiano. Gary had already received the Prize in 1956 with and since this prize can be awarded only once to a given author plus the fact that Gary was going through a difficult time with the literary critics, prompted him to present the book under pseudonym. Who was behind Ajar was not found out until after Gary鈥檚 suicide in 1980.
And the fact that this could happen, that no one suspected who was the real author behind a novel that had such immediate and great success, is the best proof of what for me is one of the most attractive features of this novel: the voice of the narrator. An excellent writer is the one who can create a voice that completely defines the personality, the mind, of a fictional character, and completely disappear behind it.
So, when we hear Momo, a Muslim (Mohamed) of about ten to fourteen years old (for his age remains a mystery for a portion of the book) describe his world, his life, at the pension run by Madame Rose, an elderly former prostitute who, as a Polish Jew, had survived through Auschwitz before she came to live in Paris, we are completely captivated by him. For although his universe is that of a working-class district in North-eastern Paris, the candour and alertness with which he observes those around him, and his reasoning of how and why things happen in a certain way, one forgets that behind this invented Momo there is an adult writer of an entirely different background.
Momo becomes particularly endearing when he uses expressions, often euphemistic, that he has heard around him and has completely assimilated them without fully understanding what is behind them. The most notorious is the one he has learnt from Madame Rose when she refers to the other women qui se d茅fendaient (avec son cul), and that he then often uses when he figures out how other adults also 鈥榙efend themselves鈥�. Endearing also in Momo is his heart. His gut love for the decaying Madame Rose who becomes more and more preposterous, not just to us, but to him too, is almost chimerical. And that love is the driver in the story.
The portrayal of this impoverished society is enriched by the gallery of personalities, and if one needs a scenario, the best is offered by Madame Rose鈥檚 apartment at the top of building of six storeys with no lift. Climbing to her home is for most of the characters, but in particular for Madame Rose herself, like ascending the Calvary. To me the most striking personality in this gallery is the angel-like Madame Lola, a travesty who 鈥榙efends herself鈥� as a prostitute, who was a former boxer in Senegal, and who is quite successful in her career being able to provide intermittent but needed assistance to Madame Rose and her cares.
After such a memorable read, I am looking forward to discovering more of Gary鈥檚 voices and, may be, I will unearth which one I had already read in one of those past Summers.
June 24, 2020
蹖讴 丕孬乇 賯丕亘賱 鬲賵噩賴 賵 賯丕亘賱 鬲丕賲賱 賵 賴賲趩賳蹖賳 亘賴 卮丿鬲 鬲丕孬蹖乇诏匕丕乇 貙 讴鬲丕亘 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 乇丕 丕夭 趩賴乇賴 讴丕乇鬲 倬爻鬲丕賱蹖 倬丕乇蹖爻 丿賵乇 賳诏賴 賲蹖丿丕乇丿 賵 丿乇 爻賮乇蹖 噩丕賱亘 讴賴 亘丕 鬲乇噩賲賴 噩爻賵乇丕賳賴 爻乇讴丕乇 禺丕賳賲 诏賱爻鬲丕賳 噩丕賱亘鬲乇 賴賲 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲 賲禺丕胤亘 乇丕 亘丕 禺賵丿 亘賴 讴賵趩賴 倬爻 讴賵趩賴 賴丕蹖 賲丨賱丕鬲 夭丕睾賴 賳卮蹖賳 賵 賲賲賱賵 丕夭 賲賴丕噩乇賴丕蹖 睾蹖乇 賯丕賳賵賳蹖 倬丕乇蹖爻 賲蹖 亘乇丿 . 丿乇 诏蹖乇賵丿丕乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘丕 賲賵賲賵 趩賴丕乇丿賴 爻丕賱賴 丕蹖 讴賴 鬲丕 丕賵丕爻胤 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賮讴乇 賲蹖 讴賳丿 丿賴 爻丕賱賴 丕爻鬲 賵 丌卮賳丕 賲蹖 卮賵蹖賲 賵 乇夭丕 禺丕賳賵賲 ! 讴賴 賲爻卅賵賱蹖鬲 亘夭乇诏 讴乇丿賳 丕胤賮丕賱蹖 乇丕 讴賴 賲丕丿乇賴丕蹖卮丕賳 亘丿讴丕乇賴 賴爻鬲賳丿(賲孬賱賴 賲丕丿乇 賲賵賲賵) 賵 胤亘賯 賯丕賳賵賳 賳賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳賳丿 亘趩賴 賴丕蹖 禺賵丿 乇丕 賳诏賴 丿丕乇蹖 讴賳賳丿 亘乇 毓賴丿賴 丿丕乇丿. 賴賲趩賳蹖賳 亘丕 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖蹖 丿蹖诏乇蹖 讴賴 丕诏乇 趩賴 卮睾賱卮丕賳 丕夭 胤乇賮 噩丕賲毓賴 倬爻鬲 卮賲乇丿賴 賲蹖 卮賵丿 賵賱蹖 禺賵丿 丕賳爻丕賳賴丕蹖 卮乇蹖賮蹖 賴爻鬲賳丿 亘賴 鬲丿乇蹖噩 丌卮賳丕 賲蹖 卮賵蹖賲 . 賲丕亘賯蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘賴 賲乇蹖囟蹖 亘爻蹖丕乇 爻禺鬲 乇夭丕 禺丕賳賵賲 讴賴 賲蹖 丿丕賳蹖賲 爻乇胤丕賳 賳蹖爻鬲 賵賱蹖 賳賲蹖 丿丕賳蹖賲 趩賴 賴爻鬲 賲蹖 诏匕乇丿 . 賵 賱丨馗丕鬲 爻禺鬲 亘蹖賲丕乇蹖 乇丕 丕夭 賳诏丕賴 賲賵賲賵 亘丕 胤賳夭蹖 爻禺鬲 鬲賱禺 賵 诏夭賳丿賴 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 亘丕夭诏賵 賲蹖 讴賳丿 . 讴鬲丕亘 丕夭 诏賮鬲賳 丕蹖賳 讴賴 亘毓丿 丕夭 乇夭丕 禺丕賳賵賲 趩賴 亘乇 爻乇 讴賵丿讴丕賳 賲蹖 丌蹖丿 賵 蹖丕 丨鬲蹖 倬蹖卮 亘蹖賳蹖 丕蹖賳 賲胤賱亘 丕噩鬲賳丕亘 賲蹖 讴賳丿 . 賯爻賲鬲 丌禺乇 讴鬲丕亘 賵丕讴賳卮 賲賵賲賵 讴賲蹖 丕睾乇丕賯 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵亘賴 賳馗乇賲 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賲賳丕爻亘 讴賵丿讴丕賳 倬賳噩 蹖丕 卮卮 爻丕賱賴 賴爻鬲 .
丕賲丕 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲賳 賮乇丕賳爻賴 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 爻禺鬲 鬲乇蹖賳 賲乇夭 亘賳丿蹖 賴丕 乇丕 亘丕 賲賴丕噩乇蹖賳 丿丕乇丿 賵 賲丨賱丕鬲蹖 丿乇 倬丕乇蹖爻 賴爻鬲 讴賴 丕诏乇 讴爻蹖 丌賳 噩丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴賳丿 毓賲賱丕 卮丕賳爻蹖 亘乇丕蹖 诏乇賮鬲賳 讴丕乇 賲賳丕爻亘 賵 卮丕蹖丿 丨鬲蹖 鬲丨氐蹖賱丕鬲 丿乇爻鬲 丨爻丕亘蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮丿 . 賲孬賱丕 丿乇 卮賴乇 倬丕乇蹖爻 賲賳 禺賵丿賲 亘丕乇賴丕 丿蹖丿賴 丕賲 讴賴 賲卮丕睾賱 爻禺鬲 賵 賮丕賯丿 賵噩賴賴 丕噩鬲賲丕毓蹖 亘乇 毓賴丿賴 爻蹖丕賴 倬賵爻鬲丕賳 蹖丕 丕賮乇丕丿蹖 丕夭 禺丕賵乇賲蹖丕賳賴 賵 卮賲丕賱 丌賮乇蹖賯丕 賴爻鬲 賵 賴乇 蹖讴 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲賴丕噩乇蹖賳 诏乇賵賴 賵 亘丕賳丿 禺賵丿 乇丕 丿丕乇賳丿 . 卮丕蹖丿 亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 毓賱鬲 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕讴賳賵賳 賲賴丕噩乇蹖賳 睾蹖乇 賯丕賳賵賳蹖 鬲乇噩蹖丨 賲蹖 丿賴賳丿 丕夭 賮乇丕賳爻賴 毓亘賵乇 讴乇丿賴 賵 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘賴 丌賱賲丕賳 蹖丕 丕賳诏賱爻鬲丕賳 亘乇爻丕賳賳丿 . 亘丕 丿乇 賳馗乇 诏乇賮鬲賳 丕蹖賳 賲胤賱亘 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳 爻乇賳賵卮鬲 賵 丌蹖賳丿賴 趩賳蹖賳 讴賵丿讴丕賳蹖 賲孬賱賴 賲賵賲賵 蹖丕 丿賵爻鬲丕賳卮 乇丕 鬲氐賵乇 讴乇丿
丕賲丕 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲賳 賮乇丕賳爻賴 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 爻禺鬲 鬲乇蹖賳 賲乇夭 亘賳丿蹖 賴丕 乇丕 亘丕 賲賴丕噩乇蹖賳 丿丕乇丿 賵 賲丨賱丕鬲蹖 丿乇 倬丕乇蹖爻 賴爻鬲 讴賴 丕诏乇 讴爻蹖 丌賳 噩丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴賳丿 毓賲賱丕 卮丕賳爻蹖 亘乇丕蹖 诏乇賮鬲賳 讴丕乇 賲賳丕爻亘 賵 卮丕蹖丿 丨鬲蹖 鬲丨氐蹖賱丕鬲 丿乇爻鬲 丨爻丕亘蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮丿 . 賲孬賱丕 丿乇 卮賴乇 倬丕乇蹖爻 賲賳 禺賵丿賲 亘丕乇賴丕 丿蹖丿賴 丕賲 讴賴 賲卮丕睾賱 爻禺鬲 賵 賮丕賯丿 賵噩賴賴 丕噩鬲賲丕毓蹖 亘乇 毓賴丿賴 爻蹖丕賴 倬賵爻鬲丕賳 蹖丕 丕賮乇丕丿蹖 丕夭 禺丕賵乇賲蹖丕賳賴 賵 卮賲丕賱 丌賮乇蹖賯丕 賴爻鬲 賵 賴乇 蹖讴 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲賴丕噩乇蹖賳 诏乇賵賴 賵 亘丕賳丿 禺賵丿 乇丕 丿丕乇賳丿 . 卮丕蹖丿 亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 毓賱鬲 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕讴賳賵賳 賲賴丕噩乇蹖賳 睾蹖乇 賯丕賳賵賳蹖 鬲乇噩蹖丨 賲蹖 丿賴賳丿 丕夭 賮乇丕賳爻賴 毓亘賵乇 讴乇丿賴 賵 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘賴 丌賱賲丕賳 蹖丕 丕賳诏賱爻鬲丕賳 亘乇爻丕賳賳丿 . 亘丕 丿乇 賳馗乇 诏乇賮鬲賳 丕蹖賳 賲胤賱亘 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳 爻乇賳賵卮鬲 賵 丌蹖賳丿賴 趩賳蹖賳 讴賵丿讴丕賳蹖 賲孬賱賴 賲賵賲賵 蹖丕 丿賵爻鬲丕賳卮 乇丕 鬲氐賵乇 讴乇丿
April 5, 2024
Candeur de l鈥櫭e et du langage
Bon je savais que j鈥檃i toute ma vie devant moi mais je n鈥檃llais pas me rendre malade pour 莽a.
La vie devant soi est plein de telles pens茅es d茅licieusement paradoxales avec lesquelles l鈥檈nfant narrateur, Momo, essaie de comprendre le monde qui l'entoure. Et malgr茅 l鈥檃pparent cynisme de cette affirmation qui a sugg茅r茅 le titre du roman, l鈥檋istoire qu鈥檌l nous raconte, de sa voix d鈥檈nfant pr茅coce que la vie n鈥檃 pas r茅ussi 脿 briser est une vraie histoire d鈥檃mour, pleine de tendresse, d鈥檋umour et d鈥檕ptimisme. Cet amour qui d茅passe les barri猫res de l鈥櫭e, de la langue, de la race et des classes sociales est le th猫me principal d鈥檜n r茅cit qui exploit 脿 la fois les ressources de l鈥櫭e et celles de la langue fran莽aise en aboutissant 脿 un 茅quilibre parfait entre le quoi et le comment, c鈥檈st-脿-dire entre la forme et le contenu.
Le quoi, c鈥檈st la description d鈥檜ne vie en marge de la soci茅t茅, l脿 o霉 on trouve les prostitu茅es et leurs prox茅n猫tes, les travestis, mais aussi les immigrants pauvres et les vieillards oubli茅s par leurs familles. Cependant ce monde d茅sol茅 et mis茅rable est r茅dim茅 脿 travers les yeux d鈥檜n enfant qui l鈥檋abite naturellement, qui le comprend sans le ha茂r et sans en 锚tre corrompu. Aussi, tous les autres th猫mes graves du roman, l鈥檌njustice sociale, l鈥檈nfance, la vieillesse, la mort, sont trait茅s d鈥檜ne mani猫re fra卯che et originale par un narrateur qui r茅invente le monde 脿 sa fa莽on 脿 lui, en prouvant que l鈥檌nnocence n鈥檈st pas toujours g芒t茅e par le milieu social.
Momo regarde autour de lui avec curiosit茅 et compr茅hension, et d茅crit ce qu鈥檌l voit avec un soin pour les d茅tails et un plaisir pour l鈥檌nformation exhaustive qui apporte invariablement un tendre sourire 脿 l鈥櫭e :
Madame Lola est tr猫s belle pour un homme sauf sa voix qui date o霉 elle 茅tait champion de boxe poids lourds, et elle n鈥檡 pouvait rien car les voix sont en rapport avec les couilles et c鈥櫭﹖ait la grande tristesse de sa vie.
Quoiqu鈥檌l connaisse bien les malheurs de la vie, car il a vu dans sa 芦 vieille exp茅rience 禄 des vertes et des pas m没res, entre autre la haine raciale (芦 Pendant longtemps, je n鈥檃i pas su que j鈥櫭﹖ais arabe parce que personne ne m鈥檌nsultait 禄), la drogue (芦 Moi, l鈥檋茅ro茂ne, je crache dessus 禄), l鈥檌niquit茅 sociale (芦 La loi c鈥檈st fait pour prot茅ger les gens qui ont quelque chose 脿 prot茅ger contre les autres 禄) et ainsi de suite, Momo garde sa puret茅 enfantine, sa g茅n茅rosit茅 intrins猫que et surtout sa capacit茅 d鈥檃imer :
Chaque matin, j鈥櫭﹖ais heureux de voir que Madame Rosa se r茅veillait, car j鈥檃vais des terreurs nocturnes, j鈥檃vais une peur bleue de me trouver sans elle.
Une puret茅 mise aussi en 茅vidence par un langage qui lui est propre, emprunt茅 des adultes mais sanctionn茅 par l鈥檌nnocence. Parfois c鈥檈st la prononciation approximative de certains mots (芦 proxyn猫te 禄 au lieu de 芦 prox茅n猫te 禄), la confusion des paronymes (芦 habitude 禄 pour 芦 h茅b茅tude 禄, 芦 amnistie 禄 pour 芦 amn茅sie 禄), ou l鈥櫭﹍argissement s茅mantique de quelques mots et expressions (芦 se d茅fendre 禄 gagne le sens de 芦 se prostituer 禄, les 芦 rumeurs d鈥橭rl茅ans 禄 celui de 芦 par ou茂 dire 禄, etc.), auxquelles s鈥檃joutent autres marques de la langue parl茅e, comme l鈥檈mploi excessif des d茅monstratifs (芦 c鈥檈st la prostitution qui veut 莽a 禄), le manque de concordance des temps (芦 Je suis descendu au caf茅 de Monsieur Driss en bas et je m鈥檃ssis en face de Monsieur Hamil鈥� 禄), les pl茅onasmes (芦 la cuisine culinaire 禄), les truismes (芦 Il鈥� n鈥檃vait pas de cheveux comme beaucoup de chauves 禄), les contradictions en termes (芦 J鈥檃i m锚me eu piti茅, tellement je m鈥檈n foutais. 禄) etc., etc., etc..
Autrefois, c鈥檈st l鈥檈mploi des expressions toutes faites qu鈥檌l a entendues, retenues et qu'il utilise maintenant avec une candide assurance, malgr茅 leur l茅g猫re inappropri茅t茅 : 芦 Je pense que pour vivre il faut s鈥檡 prendre tr猫s jeune, parce qu鈥檃pr猫s on perd toute sa valeur et personne ne vous fera des cadeaux. 禄
Enfin, c鈥檈st la r茅habilitation du vulgaire, soit par l鈥檃ttribution des connotations inattenduement positives (Momo r锚ve des fois de devenir flic ou 芦 proxyn猫te 禄 pour prot茅ger ceux qu鈥檌l aime), soit par l鈥檈mploi g茅nuine, sans aucune malice des mots argotiques ou grossiers :
Il est venu faire la piq没re 脿 Madame Rosa, ma 莽a a failli mal tourner parce qu鈥檌l s鈥櫭﹖ait tromp茅 d鈥檃mpoule et il avait foutu dans le cul 脿 Madame Rosa la ration d鈥檋茅ro茂ne qu鈥檌l se r茅servait pour le jour o霉 il aurait fini sa d茅sintoxication.
鈥n ferme le roman avec la joie secr猫te que le tant raill茅 humanisme na茂f triomphe de nouveau. Et on reste, le c艙ur attendri et 茅mu, 脿 se questionner : lequel a 茅t茅 plus beau, le monde, les paroles ? Bien s没r, comme d鈥檋abitude, comme toujours, le monde des paroles.
December 9, 2020
丕丨爻丕爻 賲蹖 讴賳賲 倬賳噩 爻鬲丕乇賴 賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 讴賲賴!
賲鬲賳 賵 趩丕乇趩賵亘 讴鬲丕亘貙 禺蹖賱蹖 賲賳 乇賵 亘賴 蹖丕丿 讴鬲丕亘 賳丕胤賵乇 丿卮鬲 丕賳丿丕禺鬲貙 趩賵賳 賯賴乇賲丕賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 倬爻乇讴蹖 賳賵噩賵丕賳 賴爻鬲 賵 鬲賲丕賲 讴鬲丕亘 丕夭 夭亘丕賳 丕蹖賳 倬爻乇亘趩賴 乇賵丕蹖鬲 賲蹖卮賴.
鬲賳賴丕 鬲賮丕賵鬲卮 丕蹖賳賴 讴賴 賳丕胤賵乇 丿卮鬲 讴賲蹖 鬲賵 匕賵賯 賲蹖夭丿貙 賲卮禺氐 亘賵丿 爻丕禺鬲诏蹖賴 賵 賲毓賱賵賲 亘賵丿 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 爻賳 夭蹖丕丿蹖 丿丕乇賴! 賵賱蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 丨賯蹖賯鬲丕 禺賵亘 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 賵 賵丕賯毓丕 丕蹖賳 丨爻 乇賵 賲賳鬲賯賱 賲蹖 讴賳賴 讴賴 丌丿賲 倬丕蹖 氐丨亘鬲 賴丕蹖 蹖讴 倬爻乇亘趩賴 丿賴 爻丕賱賴 賳卮爻鬲賴!
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 禺蹖賱蹖 乇賵卮賳 賵 賵丕囟丨賴 讴賴 賳賲蹖卮賴 亘丿賵賳 賱賵 丿丕丿賳 亘賴卮 丕卮丕乇賴 丕蹖 丿丕卮鬲! 倬爻 趩蹖夭蹖 賳賲蹖诏賲.
賳蹖賲賴 丕賵賱 讴鬲丕亘貙 禺蹖賱蹖 卮丕丿 賵 禺賵卮丨丕賱 賵 禺賵卮 賵 禺乇賲 卮乇賵毓 卮丿 賵 賳蹖賲賴 丿賵賲 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 爻賵蹖 鬲蹖乇诏蹖 倬蹖卮 乇賮鬲貙 亘胤賵乇蹖讴賴 丿賴 氐賮丨賴 丌禺乇 亘賴 卮丿鬲 爻蹖丕賴 賵 鬲賱禺 賵 睾賲诏蹖賳 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 睾蹖乇 賯丕亘賱 倬蹖卮 亘蹖賳蹖 亘賵丿!
蹖讴蹖 丕夭 亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 倬丕蹖丕賳 賴丕蹖蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 鬲丕 亘賴 丨丕賱 禺賵賳丿賴 亘賵丿賲.
亘蹖 卮讴 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 亘賴 賴賲賴 鬲賵氐蹖賴 賲蹖 讴賳賲貙 禺蹖賱蹖 夭蹖亘丕 亘賵丿貙 禺蹖賱蹖 賱匕鬲 亘乇丿賲.
賲鬲賳 賵 趩丕乇趩賵亘 讴鬲丕亘貙 禺蹖賱蹖 賲賳 乇賵 亘賴 蹖丕丿 讴鬲丕亘 賳丕胤賵乇 丿卮鬲 丕賳丿丕禺鬲貙 趩賵賳 賯賴乇賲丕賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 倬爻乇讴蹖 賳賵噩賵丕賳 賴爻鬲 賵 鬲賲丕賲 讴鬲丕亘 丕夭 夭亘丕賳 丕蹖賳 倬爻乇亘趩賴 乇賵丕蹖鬲 賲蹖卮賴.
鬲賳賴丕 鬲賮丕賵鬲卮 丕蹖賳賴 讴賴 賳丕胤賵乇 丿卮鬲 讴賲蹖 鬲賵 匕賵賯 賲蹖夭丿貙 賲卮禺氐 亘賵丿 爻丕禺鬲诏蹖賴 賵 賲毓賱賵賲 亘賵丿 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 爻賳 夭蹖丕丿蹖 丿丕乇賴! 賵賱蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 丨賯蹖賯鬲丕 禺賵亘 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 賵 賵丕賯毓丕 丕蹖賳 丨爻 乇賵 賲賳鬲賯賱 賲蹖 讴賳賴 讴賴 丌丿賲 倬丕蹖 氐丨亘鬲 賴丕蹖 蹖讴 倬爻乇亘趩賴 丿賴 爻丕賱賴 賳卮爻鬲賴!
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 禺蹖賱蹖 乇賵卮賳 賵 賵丕囟丨賴 讴賴 賳賲蹖卮賴 亘丿賵賳 賱賵 丿丕丿賳 亘賴卮 丕卮丕乇賴 丕蹖 丿丕卮鬲! 倬爻 趩蹖夭蹖 賳賲蹖诏賲.
賳蹖賲賴 丕賵賱 讴鬲丕亘貙 禺蹖賱蹖 卮丕丿 賵 禺賵卮丨丕賱 賵 禺賵卮 賵 禺乇賲 卮乇賵毓 卮丿 賵 賳蹖賲賴 丿賵賲 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 爻賵蹖 鬲蹖乇诏蹖 倬蹖卮 乇賮鬲貙 亘胤賵乇蹖讴賴 丿賴 氐賮丨賴 丌禺乇 亘賴 卮丿鬲 爻蹖丕賴 賵 鬲賱禺 賵 睾賲诏蹖賳 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 睾蹖乇 賯丕亘賱 倬蹖卮 亘蹖賳蹖 亘賵丿!
蹖讴蹖 丕夭 亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 倬丕蹖丕賳 賴丕蹖蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 鬲丕 亘賴 丨丕賱 禺賵賳丿賴 亘賵丿賲.
亘蹖 卮讴 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 亘賴 賴賲賴 鬲賵氐蹖賴 賲蹖 讴賳賲貙 禺蹖賱蹖 夭蹖亘丕 亘賵丿貙 禺蹖賱蹖 賱匕鬲 亘乇丿賲.
April 9, 2021
Muhte艧em. G眉lerek, a臒layarak, co艧kuyla, h眉z眉nle okudum. Bir 莽ocu臒un d眉艧眉nd眉klerini ve hissettiklerini bu kadar naif, ilgin莽 ve ger莽ek莽i anlatan roman az bulunur.
"Bilgisizli臒im 眉莽 ya da d枚rt ya艧谋mda son buldu, bazan 枚zlemini 莽ekti臒im oluyor." (s. 11)
"O kadar a臒l谋yordu ki 莽i艧im geldi." (s. 20)
"Tabii bu konuda hi莽bir zaman b眉t眉n b眉t眉ne rahat de臒ildi, 莽眉nk眉 b枚yle bir 艧ey i莽in 枚lm眉艧 olmak gerekir. Ya艧am dedi臒in s眉rekli bir paniktir." (s. 24)
"Doktor Katz orada nedensiz bulundu臒umu, d眉nyada onca yoksulluk varken bir iskemle i艧gal etti臒imi g枚r眉rd眉, ..." (s. 26)
"Havalarda hal谋 莽eken bal谋klar ciddi gelmeyebilir insana, ama din bunu gerektirmektedir." (s. 32)
"...ne kadar az 艧eyiniz varsa o kadar 莽ok inanmak istersiniz..." (s. 37)
"陌nsanlar谋n kendi s枚ylediklerine inanmay谋 ba艧ard谋klar谋n谋 s谋k s谋k fark ettim, ya艧amak i莽in gereksinirler bunu. Filozof olmak i莽in s枚ylemiyorum, ger莽ekten b枚yle d眉艧眉n眉yorum." (s. 41)
"Eh, in艧allah, ama i艧ler b枚yle in艧allahla ma艧allahla olmaz, bunu sadece iyi bir m眉sl眉man oldu臒umdan s枚yl眉yorum." (s. 42)
"- Yahudi bar谋na臒谋m oras谋 Momo.
- Eh peki, iyi 枚yleyse.
- Anl谋yor musun?
- Hay谋r, ama yok zarar谋, al谋艧谋臒谋m." (s. 47)
"Madam Rosa, 'karabasanlar d眉艧lerin ya艧lanmas谋d谋r' derdi hep." (s. 50)
"艦imdi 莽ocuklar谋 ya艧ama kar艧谋 korumak i莽in yasal do臒um kontrol hap谋 da vard谋, ger莽ekten istekli olmak gerekiyordu." (s. 58)
"Bana hep garip gelen, g枚zya艧lar谋n谋n do臒madan 枚nce programlanm谋艧 olmas谋d谋r. Bu demektir ki a臒layaca臒谋m谋z 枚nceden saptanm谋艧. Bunu hi莽 d眉艧眉nd眉n眉z m眉? kendine sayg谋s谋 olan hi莽bir yarat谋c谋 yapmaz bunu." (s. 60)
"Kendilerine eroin i臒nesi yapan b眉t眉n veletler mutluluk al谋艧kanl谋臒谋na tutulurlar, bunun da hi莽 ac谋mas谋 yoktur, 莽眉nk眉 mutluluk 枚zellikle yoklu臒uyla tan谋nan bir merettir." (s. 65)
"Bamba艧ka 艧eylerle dolup ta艧an 莽ok uzak bir yere gitmek isterdim. Bunu d眉艧lemeye bile 莽al谋艧m谋yorum, berbat etmeyeyim diye." (s. 79)
"... anl谋yordum, ama anlamak bazan tam tersine, hi莽bir 艧eyi 莽枚z眉mlemez." (s. 113)
"Bana kal谋rsa kendini savunmaktan aciz ve art谋k hizmet g枚rmek istemeyen insanlara ya艧am谋 zorla burunlar谋na sokmak kadar rezil bir 艧ey yoktur." (s. 183)
"Bilgisizli臒im 眉莽 ya da d枚rt ya艧谋mda son buldu, bazan 枚zlemini 莽ekti臒im oluyor." (s. 11)
"O kadar a臒l谋yordu ki 莽i艧im geldi." (s. 20)
"Tabii bu konuda hi莽bir zaman b眉t眉n b眉t眉ne rahat de臒ildi, 莽眉nk眉 b枚yle bir 艧ey i莽in 枚lm眉艧 olmak gerekir. Ya艧am dedi臒in s眉rekli bir paniktir." (s. 24)
"Doktor Katz orada nedensiz bulundu臒umu, d眉nyada onca yoksulluk varken bir iskemle i艧gal etti臒imi g枚r眉rd眉, ..." (s. 26)
"Havalarda hal谋 莽eken bal谋klar ciddi gelmeyebilir insana, ama din bunu gerektirmektedir." (s. 32)
"...ne kadar az 艧eyiniz varsa o kadar 莽ok inanmak istersiniz..." (s. 37)
"陌nsanlar谋n kendi s枚ylediklerine inanmay谋 ba艧ard谋klar谋n谋 s谋k s谋k fark ettim, ya艧amak i莽in gereksinirler bunu. Filozof olmak i莽in s枚ylemiyorum, ger莽ekten b枚yle d眉艧眉n眉yorum." (s. 41)
"Eh, in艧allah, ama i艧ler b枚yle in艧allahla ma艧allahla olmaz, bunu sadece iyi bir m眉sl眉man oldu臒umdan s枚yl眉yorum." (s. 42)
"- Yahudi bar谋na臒谋m oras谋 Momo.
- Eh peki, iyi 枚yleyse.
- Anl谋yor musun?
- Hay谋r, ama yok zarar谋, al谋艧谋臒谋m." (s. 47)
"Madam Rosa, 'karabasanlar d眉艧lerin ya艧lanmas谋d谋r' derdi hep." (s. 50)
"艦imdi 莽ocuklar谋 ya艧ama kar艧谋 korumak i莽in yasal do臒um kontrol hap谋 da vard谋, ger莽ekten istekli olmak gerekiyordu." (s. 58)
"Bana hep garip gelen, g枚zya艧lar谋n谋n do臒madan 枚nce programlanm谋艧 olmas谋d谋r. Bu demektir ki a臒layaca臒谋m谋z 枚nceden saptanm谋艧. Bunu hi莽 d眉艧眉nd眉n眉z m眉? kendine sayg谋s谋 olan hi莽bir yarat谋c谋 yapmaz bunu." (s. 60)
"Kendilerine eroin i臒nesi yapan b眉t眉n veletler mutluluk al谋艧kanl谋臒谋na tutulurlar, bunun da hi莽 ac谋mas谋 yoktur, 莽眉nk眉 mutluluk 枚zellikle yoklu臒uyla tan谋nan bir merettir." (s. 65)
"Bamba艧ka 艧eylerle dolup ta艧an 莽ok uzak bir yere gitmek isterdim. Bunu d眉艧lemeye bile 莽al谋艧m谋yorum, berbat etmeyeyim diye." (s. 79)
"... anl谋yordum, ama anlamak bazan tam tersine, hi莽bir 艧eyi 莽枚z眉mlemez." (s. 113)
"Bana kal谋rsa kendini savunmaktan aciz ve art谋k hizmet g枚rmek istemeyen insanlara ya艧am谋 zorla burunlar谋na sokmak kadar rezil bir 艧ey yoktur." (s. 183)
February 28, 2016
This is the story of 'Madame Rosa'...a classic French book, written by Romain Gary, an American screenwriter who gained fame as a French writer. He's won many
literary and honors awards in France.
There is a a stage play of this story ...I haven't seen it.. but it would be easy to visualize.
A wonderful evocation of a child's mind and experience.
Funny, disturbing...sad...honest...unconventional environment.
This novel touches our heart while captivating our mind. ( a simple tale of many layers).
No-nonsense wasted words!
Most of the novel takes place in the apartment of Madame Rosa. She is Jewish,
an ex-prostitute. obese, and dying.
The relationship between Momo and Madame Rosa against the most seedy
conditions is profoundly moving. One does not stop thinking about this book just
because you've finished reading it.
The minor characters also memorable.....Dr. Katz, ( Madame Rosa's Doctor), Banania, ( young black boy),
Monsieur Hamil, ( sold carpets), and Arthur, ( an umbrella--Momo's best friend).
Quotes:
"Life can be beautiful except nobody really knows how to make it that way and meanwhile we've got to live".
"You don't need a reason to be afraid"
"can somebody live without love?"
"nightmares are what dreams turn into with age".
*part of this book was based on the authors life.
It's very sad that he died so young...leaving a suicide note 'for the press'...in December, 1980.
Romain Gary was an extraordinary writer.
literary and honors awards in France.
There is a a stage play of this story ...I haven't seen it.. but it would be easy to visualize.
A wonderful evocation of a child's mind and experience.
Funny, disturbing...sad...honest...unconventional environment.
This novel touches our heart while captivating our mind. ( a simple tale of many layers).
No-nonsense wasted words!
Most of the novel takes place in the apartment of Madame Rosa. She is Jewish,
an ex-prostitute. obese, and dying.
The relationship between Momo and Madame Rosa against the most seedy
conditions is profoundly moving. One does not stop thinking about this book just
because you've finished reading it.
The minor characters also memorable.....Dr. Katz, ( Madame Rosa's Doctor), Banania, ( young black boy),
Monsieur Hamil, ( sold carpets), and Arthur, ( an umbrella--Momo's best friend).
Quotes:
"Life can be beautiful except nobody really knows how to make it that way and meanwhile we've got to live".
"You don't need a reason to be afraid"
"can somebody live without love?"
"nightmares are what dreams turn into with age".
*part of this book was based on the authors life.
It's very sad that he died so young...leaving a suicide note 'for the press'...in December, 1980.
Romain Gary was an extraordinary writer.
November 5, 2019
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丕賵噩 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 噩丕蹖蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賴賲爻丕蹖賴鈥屬囏� 趩蹖夭蹖 鬲賵 丕蹖賳 賲丕蹖賴鈥屬囏� 亘賴 賲丨賲丿 賲蹖鈥屭� 讴賴 賲賵賲賵 讴賵趩賵賱賵貙 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 鬲賵 鬲賳賴丕 賲爻賱賲賵賳蹖 讴賴 亘賴 夭亘丕賳 毓亘乇蹖 氐丨亘鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�... 丌丿賲 賲賵 亘賴 鬲賳卮 爻蹖禺 賲蹖鈥屫促� 賵 亘丕 禺賵丿卮 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 趩賴鈥屬傌� 讴丕乇 噩賴丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗀池� 爻丕丿賴 亘丕卮賴 賵 卮丕蹖丿 丕蹖賳 賲丕蹖蹖賲 讴賴 亘丕 鬲毓氐亘賲賵賳 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭賵 倬蹖趩蹖丿賴 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬�...
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蹖丕丿诏丕乇蹖 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘:
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賵賱賵 讴賴 丌丿賲 禺蹖賱蹖 賴賲 夭噩乇 讴卮蹖丿賴 亘丕卮丿貙 亘丕夭 賴賲蹖卮賴 蹖讴 趩蹖夭蹖 亘乇丕蹖 蹖丕丿 诏乇賮鬲賳 亘丕賯蹖 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗀�.
January 1, 2020
賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 乇蹖賵蹖賵蹖 2020
丕賵賱蹖賳 亘丕乇 讴賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿乇 倬蹖卮 乇賵 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 卮乇讴鬲 丿乇 噩賱爻賴 讴鬲丕亘禺賵丕賳蹖 卮乇賵毓 讴乇丿賲 賴賲夭賲丕賳 卮丿 亘丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳 賲乇诏 賯爻胤蹖 爻賱蹖賳,诏丕賴蹖 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賳 蹖讴 賮乇丿 胤賵乇蹖 賲賮賴賵賲 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丕賳 夭賳丿賴 丕蹖賲 賵 丿乇讴 賲丕 丕夭 丕賳 夭賲丕賳賴 乇丕 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 賲蹖 丿賴丿 讴賴 丿乇 丕賳 卮乇丕蹖胤 賳诏丕賴 賲丕 賮賯胤 丕賵 乇丕 賲蹖亘蹖賳丿..亘賴 賴賲賴 卮禺氐 丿蹖诏乇 亘蹖 鬲賵噩賴爻鬲,诏賵蹖蹖 讴賴 賳賲蹖亘蹖賳丿 賵 亘丕 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖 丕卮 亘賴 倬蹖卮 賲蹖鬲丕夭丿,丿乇 噩爻鬲 噩賵蹖 賮乇丿丕 賴丕蹖蹖 亘蹖 賳賴丕蹖鬲 爻賮乇 賲蹖讴賳丿,讴賴 賳丕睾丕賮賱 丕賲丕 乇賵夭蹖 鬲賲丕賲 賲蹖 卮賵丿,賴賲趩賳丕賳 讴賴 賲乇诏 賯爻胤蹖 鬲賲丕賲 卮丿,賵 丕夭 丕賳 賮乇丿 鬲賳賴丕 夭禺賲蹖 亘乇 乇賵丨 賲蹖賲丕賳丿 讴賴 蹖丕丿丕賵乇蹖 丕賳 丕賱亘鬲賴 亘丕 禺賵卮蹖 賲丕夭賵禺蹖爻鬲蹖 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘丕賯蹖 賲蹖 賲丕賳丿,
賮乇丿丕 蹖 丕賳 乇賵夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 倬蹖卮 乇賵 乇丕 卮乇賵毓 讴乇丿賲,賵 丕蹖賳亘丕乇 丕夭 禺賵丕賳丿賳卮 賱匕鬲 亘乇丿賲,噩丕賲毓賴 丕蹖 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 讴卮蹖丿賴 卮丿賴 丕夭 丿蹖丿蹖 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 讴賴 賲賮丕賴蹖賲 賲鬲毓丿丿蹖 丿乇 賱丕蹖賴 賴丕蹖 賲鬲毓丿丿 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 賲蹖 丕賵乇丿..鬲賮讴乇 丿乇亘丕乇賴 蹖 丕蹖賳 噩丕賲毓賴 讴賴 賲蹖賱 賲丕 賴賲賵丕乇賴 亘賴 賮乇丕賲賵卮蹖 賵噩賵丿 丿丕卮鬲賳 丕賳賴丕爻鬲 鬲噩乇亘賴 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 丕蹖 丕爻鬲.
丕賵賱蹖賳 亘丕乇 讴賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿乇 倬蹖卮 乇賵 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 卮乇讴鬲 丿乇 噩賱爻賴 讴鬲丕亘禺賵丕賳蹖 卮乇賵毓 讴乇丿賲 賴賲夭賲丕賳 卮丿 亘丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳 賲乇诏 賯爻胤蹖 爻賱蹖賳,诏丕賴蹖 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賳 蹖讴 賮乇丿 胤賵乇蹖 賲賮賴賵賲 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丕賳 夭賳丿賴 丕蹖賲 賵 丿乇讴 賲丕 丕夭 丕賳 夭賲丕賳賴 乇丕 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 賲蹖 丿賴丿 讴賴 丿乇 丕賳 卮乇丕蹖胤 賳诏丕賴 賲丕 賮賯胤 丕賵 乇丕 賲蹖亘蹖賳丿..亘賴 賴賲賴 卮禺氐 丿蹖诏乇 亘蹖 鬲賵噩賴爻鬲,诏賵蹖蹖 讴賴 賳賲蹖亘蹖賳丿 賵 亘丕 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖 丕卮 亘賴 倬蹖卮 賲蹖鬲丕夭丿,丿乇 噩爻鬲 噩賵蹖 賮乇丿丕 賴丕蹖蹖 亘蹖 賳賴丕蹖鬲 爻賮乇 賲蹖讴賳丿,讴賴 賳丕睾丕賮賱 丕賲丕 乇賵夭蹖 鬲賲丕賲 賲蹖 卮賵丿,賴賲趩賳丕賳 讴賴 賲乇诏 賯爻胤蹖 鬲賲丕賲 卮丿,賵 丕夭 丕賳 賮乇丿 鬲賳賴丕 夭禺賲蹖 亘乇 乇賵丨 賲蹖賲丕賳丿 讴賴 蹖丕丿丕賵乇蹖 丕賳 丕賱亘鬲賴 亘丕 禺賵卮蹖 賲丕夭賵禺蹖爻鬲蹖 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘丕賯蹖 賲蹖 賲丕賳丿,
賮乇丿丕 蹖 丕賳 乇賵夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 倬蹖卮 乇賵 乇丕 卮乇賵毓 讴乇丿賲,賵 丕蹖賳亘丕乇 丕夭 禺賵丕賳丿賳卮 賱匕鬲 亘乇丿賲,噩丕賲毓賴 丕蹖 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 讴卮蹖丿賴 卮丿賴 丕夭 丿蹖丿蹖 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 讴賴 賲賮丕賴蹖賲 賲鬲毓丿丿蹖 丿乇 賱丕蹖賴 賴丕蹖 賲鬲毓丿丿 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 賲蹖 丕賵乇丿..鬲賮讴乇 丿乇亘丕乇賴 蹖 丕蹖賳 噩丕賲毓賴 讴賴 賲蹖賱 賲丕 賴賲賵丕乇賴 亘賴 賮乇丕賲賵卮蹖 賵噩賵丿 丿丕卮鬲賳 丕賳賴丕爻鬲 鬲噩乇亘賴 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 丕蹖 丕爻鬲.
January 27, 2023
袣薪懈谐邪, 锌褉芯薪懈蟹邪薪薪邪褟 谐褍屑邪薪懈蟹屑芯屑 懈 褌芯谢械褉邪薪褌薪芯褋褌褜褞, 胁芯蟹屑芯卸薪褘屑, 薪邪胁械褉薪芯械, 褌芯谢褜泻芯 薪邪 褋邪屑芯屑 写薪械, 泻芯谐写邪 写械谢懈褌褜 薪械褔械谐芯, 芯薪邪 - 芯斜 芯褌胁械褉卸械薪薪褘褏 褋芯胁褉械屑械薪薪芯谐芯 屑懈褉邪, 芯 谢褞斜胁懈 懈 褔械谢芯胁械泻芯谢褞斜懈懈 懈 卸械谢邪薪懈懈 卸懈褌褜, 薪械褋屑芯褌褉褟 薪懈 薪邪 褔褌芯, 薪械褋屑芯褌褉褟 薪邪 胁芯蟹褉邪褋褌 懈 斜芯谢械蟹薪懈, 薪械褋屑芯褌褉褟 薪邪 芯褋褌褉褘械 褋芯褑懈邪谢褜薪褘械 锌褉芯斜谢械屑褘, 邪薪褌邪谐芯薪懈蟹屑褘 懈 薪懈褖械褌褍. 袦芯褏邪屑屑械写, 邪褉邪斜褋泻懈泄 屑邪谢褜褔懈泻, 芯褌写邪薪薪褘泄 锌褋懈褏懈褔械褋泻懈 斜芯谢褜薪褘屑 芯褌褑芯屑, 褍斜懈胁褕懈屑 械谐芯 屑邪褌褜-锌褉芯褋褌懈褌褍褌泻褍, 薪邪 胁芯褋锌懈褌邪薪懈械 褋褌邪褉芯泄, 薪懈褖械泄 械胁褉械泄泻械, 胁芯蟹胁褉邪褖邪械褌 械泄 胁褋褞 谢褞斜芯胁褜 懈 蟹邪斜芯褌褍, 泻芯褌芯褉邪褟 褌邪 芯褌写邪谢邪 械屑褍. 袨斜邪 锌芯胁懈写邪谢懈 胁 卸懈蟹薪懈 屑薪芯谐芯 褋褌褉邪褕薪芯谐芯, 薪芯 芯斜邪 褋芯褏褉邪薪懈谢懈 褔械谢芯胁械褔薪芯褋褌褜 懈 写芯斜褉芯械 褋械褉写褑械.
January 7, 2017
Il sole 猫 un pagliaccio giallo
鈥淐erte volte avevo paura perch茅 avevo ancora molta vita davanti a me e che promessa potevo mai fare a me stesso, io, povero uomo, se 猫 Dio che tiene in mano la gomma da cancellare?鈥�
Un racconto profondo e leggero, in un ambiente aperto e cosmopolita, la banlieue di Belleville a Parigi, dove la pluralit脿 di religioni e la solidariet脿 tra gente di strada, povera e in fondo onesta, convivono nonostante i bassifondi e la malavita e le difficolt脿 materiali, in un'utopia di integrazione, rispetto, amicizia e tolleranza. Mom貌 猫 un orfano musulmano cresciuto da una anziana donna ebrea sopravvissuta, che ha fatto la vita in passato e poi la bambinaia per i piccoli nati dalle donne di mestiere; e ora 猫 malata, sostenuta da personaggi che le vivono intorno danzando in una musica tra il surreale e il tragicomico, creazioni di un linguaggio scanzonato e popolare, interpreti di una voce genuina e ironica. Un bella storia di malinconia e improbabile tenerezza, per una vita che finisce e un intreccio di numerose relazioni d'amore, e di intensa spensieratezza per un bambino che nella sofferenza diventa uomo, nell'esistere condiviso con i suoi simili. L'emarginazione e il degrado assumono un'atmosfera poetica, vestono un abito nomade e mimetico. Ci sono le diverse identit脿 di Romain Gary nei suoi personaggi, le inquietudini e le fantasie dell'avventura e delle origini cosacche e asiatiche, di un idealismo multiforme e straordinario. Sono pagine piene di dignit脿 e ossessione, di struggimento e decadenza. La realt脿 aspira ad essere all'altezza della fantasia, concretezza e trascendenza si confrontano e parlano, verso l'assoluto, verso il metafisico. Temi universali in uno stile realistico e insieme grottesco e moderno evocano figure ad alto valore umano (un venditore di tappeti che ama Hugo e il Corano, un travestito materno senegalese ex boxeur generoso e coraggioso, un dottore caritatevole, uno sciamano africano sorridente e coloratissimo), mentre un'allegria magica si diffonde e un' irregolare grazia ci avvicina la tragicit脿 intangibile e risoluta dell'esistere. Crudele umorismo che rende le comparse protagonisti belli, preziosi, indispensabili, in un incrocio di spiritualit脿 e compassione.
鈥淚l signor Hamil mi aveva detto tante volte che il tempo viene lentamente dal deserto con le sue carovane di cammelli e che non ha fretta perch茅 trasporta l'eternit脿. Ma 猫 sempre pi霉 bello quando ti viene raccontato, che quando lo vedi sulla faccia di un vecchio che ogni giorno se ne fa rubare un po' di pi霉 e, se volete la mia opinione, il tempo bisogna andarlo a cercare dai ladri鈥�.
鈥淐erte volte avevo paura perch茅 avevo ancora molta vita davanti a me e che promessa potevo mai fare a me stesso, io, povero uomo, se 猫 Dio che tiene in mano la gomma da cancellare?鈥�
Un racconto profondo e leggero, in un ambiente aperto e cosmopolita, la banlieue di Belleville a Parigi, dove la pluralit脿 di religioni e la solidariet脿 tra gente di strada, povera e in fondo onesta, convivono nonostante i bassifondi e la malavita e le difficolt脿 materiali, in un'utopia di integrazione, rispetto, amicizia e tolleranza. Mom貌 猫 un orfano musulmano cresciuto da una anziana donna ebrea sopravvissuta, che ha fatto la vita in passato e poi la bambinaia per i piccoli nati dalle donne di mestiere; e ora 猫 malata, sostenuta da personaggi che le vivono intorno danzando in una musica tra il surreale e il tragicomico, creazioni di un linguaggio scanzonato e popolare, interpreti di una voce genuina e ironica. Un bella storia di malinconia e improbabile tenerezza, per una vita che finisce e un intreccio di numerose relazioni d'amore, e di intensa spensieratezza per un bambino che nella sofferenza diventa uomo, nell'esistere condiviso con i suoi simili. L'emarginazione e il degrado assumono un'atmosfera poetica, vestono un abito nomade e mimetico. Ci sono le diverse identit脿 di Romain Gary nei suoi personaggi, le inquietudini e le fantasie dell'avventura e delle origini cosacche e asiatiche, di un idealismo multiforme e straordinario. Sono pagine piene di dignit脿 e ossessione, di struggimento e decadenza. La realt脿 aspira ad essere all'altezza della fantasia, concretezza e trascendenza si confrontano e parlano, verso l'assoluto, verso il metafisico. Temi universali in uno stile realistico e insieme grottesco e moderno evocano figure ad alto valore umano (un venditore di tappeti che ama Hugo e il Corano, un travestito materno senegalese ex boxeur generoso e coraggioso, un dottore caritatevole, uno sciamano africano sorridente e coloratissimo), mentre un'allegria magica si diffonde e un' irregolare grazia ci avvicina la tragicit脿 intangibile e risoluta dell'esistere. Crudele umorismo che rende le comparse protagonisti belli, preziosi, indispensabili, in un incrocio di spiritualit脿 e compassione.
鈥淚l signor Hamil mi aveva detto tante volte che il tempo viene lentamente dal deserto con le sue carovane di cammelli e che non ha fretta perch茅 trasporta l'eternit脿. Ma 猫 sempre pi霉 bello quando ti viene raccontato, che quando lo vedi sulla faccia di un vecchio che ogni giorno se ne fa rubare un po' di pi霉 e, se volete la mia opinione, il tempo bisogna andarlo a cercare dai ladri鈥�.
September 4, 2016
賵賯鬲蹖 卮乇賵毓卮 讴乇丿賲 賵 丨丿賵丿 鄞郯 氐賮丨賴 禺賵賳丿賲 夭蹖丕丿 丿乇诏蹖乇卮 賳亘賵丿賲. 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇 禺賵賳丿賲 賵 讴賲 讴賲 賵丕乇丿卮 卮丿賲 賵 丿蹖丿賲 讴賴 禺蹖賱蹖 丿丕乇賴 丕夭卮 禺賵卮賲 賲蹖丕丿. 禺蹖賱蹖 爻蹖丕賴賴 賵賱蹖 爻蹖丕賴蹖 賴丕 乇賵 丕夭 丿蹖丿 蹖賴 亘趩賴 賳卮賵賳 賲蹖丿賴. 賵 丕蹖賳 丿蹖丿貙 賳馗乇鬲賵 賳爻亘鬲 亘賴 夭卮鬲蹖 賴丕 亘丕夭 賲蹖讴賳賴. 蹖賳蹖 噩賵乇蹖 賲蹖亘蹖賳蹖 讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 賯亘賱賳 丕氐賳 亘賴卮 賮讴乇 賳讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿蹖. 賮讴 賳讴賳賲 讴爻蹖 亘丕卮賴 讴賴 丕夭 禺賵賳丿賳卮 倬卮蹖賲賵賳 亘卮賴.
賵丕賯毓賳 禺賵亘 賵 乇賵賵賳 賵 诏丕賴賳 亘丕 噩賲賱賴 賴丕蹖蹖 鬲讴賵賳 丿賴賳丿賴.
賲孬賱賳 丕賵賳噩丕卮 讴賴 賲蹖诏賴 丕卮讴 鬲賵 亘乇賳丕賲賴 禺賱賯鬲 丕夭 賯亘賱 亘乇賳丕賲賴 乇蹖夭蹖 卮丿賴 亘賵丿賴 倬爻 丕賳爻丕賳 亘賳丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕匕蹖鬲 卮賴 賵 丕卮讴 亘乇蹖夭賴.
賵 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 賴賲 禺賵賳丿賴 亘賵丿賲 讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕爻賱丕賲 乇賵 賲蹖讴賵亘賴 賵賱蹖 丕氐賱賳 丕蹖賳胤賵乇蹖 賳亘賵丿 賵 丕鬲賮丕賯賳 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲賳 禺蹖賱蹖 亘丕夭 亘丕 丿蹖賳 亘乇禺賵乇丿 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 賴蹖趩 鬲毓氐亘蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲.
賵丕賯毓賳 禺賵亘 賵 乇賵賵賳 賵 诏丕賴賳 亘丕 噩賲賱賴 賴丕蹖蹖 鬲讴賵賳 丿賴賳丿賴.
賲孬賱賳 丕賵賳噩丕卮 讴賴 賲蹖诏賴 丕卮讴 鬲賵 亘乇賳丕賲賴 禺賱賯鬲 丕夭 賯亘賱 亘乇賳丕賲賴 乇蹖夭蹖 卮丿賴 亘賵丿賴 倬爻 丕賳爻丕賳 亘賳丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕匕蹖鬲 卮賴 賵 丕卮讴 亘乇蹖夭賴.
賵 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 賴賲 禺賵賳丿賴 亘賵丿賲 讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕爻賱丕賲 乇賵 賲蹖讴賵亘賴 賵賱蹖 丕氐賱賳 丕蹖賳胤賵乇蹖 賳亘賵丿 賵 丕鬲賮丕賯賳 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲賳 禺蹖賱蹖 亘丕夭 亘丕 丿蹖賳 亘乇禺賵乇丿 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 賴蹖趩 鬲毓氐亘蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲.
March 29, 2019
芦丿讴鬲乇 讴丕鬲夭 亘爻蹖丕乇 丕賲蹖丿丕乇賲 讴賴 賴乇诏夭 胤亘蹖毓蹖 賳卮賵賲. 賮賯胤 賳丕讴爻鈥屬囏� 賴爻鬲賳丿 讴賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 胤亘蹖毓蹖 賴爻鬲賳丿. 丿讴鬲乇貙 賲賳 賴乇 讴丕乇蹖 丕夭 丿爻鬲賲 亘乇亘蹖丕蹖丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 鬲丕 胤亘蹖毓蹖 賳亘丕卮賲...禄
芦丿讴鬲乇貙丌丿賲 賴蹖趩 賵賯鬲 亘乇丕蹖 賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭 禺蹖賱蹖 噩賵锟斤拷賳 賳蹖爻鬲貙 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥屰� 讴賴賳賴鈥屫з� 乇丕 亘丕賵乇 讴賳蹖丿.禄
芦丿讴鬲乇貙丌丿賲 賴蹖趩 賵賯鬲 亘乇丕蹖 賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭 禺蹖賱蹖 噩賵锟斤拷賳 賳蹖爻鬲貙 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥屰� 讴賴賳賴鈥屫з� 乇丕 亘丕賵乇 讴賳蹖丿.禄
April 10, 2016
Some are born to sweet delight鈥� It isn鈥檛 about the hero of this novel鈥� And although adolescent Momo lived among those whose profession was to bring delights to the others his home was the sort of a gloomy demimonde orphanage鈥�
鈥淢adame Rosa had gray hair that was falling too, because it had stopped caring very much one way or the other. She was scared to death of going bald, it's an awful thing for a woman who hasn't got much else. She had more ass and bosom than anybody you ever heard of, and when she looked at herself in the glass, she always made a big smile, like she was trying to vamp herself.鈥�
Romain Gary was an outstanding writer and he is the only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice 鈥� the second time when he has written his novel The Life Before Us under the nom de plume of 脡mile Ajar. The book is a brilliant coming-of-age drama and there is also an excellent movie adaptation of this novel titled Madame Rosa.
鈥淢adame Rosa had gray hair that was falling too, because it had stopped caring very much one way or the other. She was scared to death of going bald, it's an awful thing for a woman who hasn't got much else. She had more ass and bosom than anybody you ever heard of, and when she looked at herself in the glass, she always made a big smile, like she was trying to vamp herself.鈥�
Romain Gary was an outstanding writer and he is the only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice 鈥� the second time when he has written his novel The Life Before Us under the nom de plume of 脡mile Ajar. The book is a brilliant coming-of-age drama and there is also an excellent movie adaptation of this novel titled Madame Rosa.
December 19, 2022
賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭蹖 讴乇蹖賴鈥屫� 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 夭賵乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 鬲賵蹖 丨賱賯 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й屰� 亘趩倬丕賳賳丿 讴賴 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗁嗀� 丕夭 禺賵丿卮丕賳 丿賮丕毓 讴賳賳丿 賵 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з囐嗀� 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿賳 丕丿丕賲賴 亘丿賴賳丿.
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丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲賵賲賵 (賲丨賲丿)貙 倬爻乇蹖 毓乇亘貙 倬爻乇 賲丕丿乇蹖 噩賳丿賴 亘賴 賳丕賲 毓丕蹖卮賴 賵 倬丿乇蹖 噩丕讴卮 亘賴 賳丕賲 蹖賵爻賮 丕爻鬲. 賲賵賲賵 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 卮睾賱 賲丕丿乇卮 讴賴 賴乇 乇賵夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 亘丕 倬丕蹖蹖賳 鬲賳賴鈥屰� 禺賵丿 賲蹖鈥屭嗀必з嗀� 賵 賲卮鬲乇蹖鈥屬囏й屫� 丕夭 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 亘趩賴鈥屫й� 丕胤乇丕賮鈥屫簇з� 亘丕卮丿 禺賵卮鈥屫簇з� 賳賲蹖鈥屫③屫� 賴賲丕賳賳丿 爻丕蹖乇 亘趩賴鈥屬囏й� 賲卮丕亘賴 禺賵丿 亘賴 丕卮禺丕氐蹖 噩賴鬲 賳诏賴丿丕乇蹖 賵 乇卮丿 爻倬乇丿賴 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 亘賴 夭賳蹖 蹖賴賵丿蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 賲丕丿丕賲 乇夭丕 讴賴 丕賵 賳蹖夭 丿乇 乇賵夭诏丕乇 噩賵丕賳蹖 亘賴 丨乇賮賴鈥屰� 賲丕丿乇 賲賵賲賵 丕卮鬲睾丕賱 丿丕卮鬲賴貙 賵 丨丕賱 丕賵 鬲亘丿蹖賱 诏卮鬲賴 亘賴 鬲賲丕賲 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲賵賲賵 賵 賮讴乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 亘丿賵賳 丕賵 賳蹖夭 賵丨卮鬲 亘賴 噩丕賳卮 賲蹖鈥屫з嗀ж藏�.
賳賵毓 亘蹖丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕夭 夭亘丕賳 賲賵賲賵貙 丿乇 賴賲丕賳 丌睾丕夭 賲賳 乇丕 亘乇丿 亘賴 賮囟丕蹖蹖 讴賴 氐亘丨 鬲丕 卮亘 賲蹖鈥屬嗀簇池� 倬丕蹖 丨乇賮鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 賮乇丿蹖賳丕賳 亘丕乇丿丕賲賵 蹖讴 賳賮爻 丿乇 芦賲乇诏 賯爻胤蹖禄 亘乇丕蹖賲 鬲毓乇蹖賮 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 賵 卮亘 丌賱丕乇賲 诏賵卮蹖鈥屫з� 乇丕 鬲賳馗蹖賲 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 讴賴 趩賴丕乇 氐亘丨 亘蹖丿丕乇 卮賵賲 賵 賴乇趩賴 爻乇蹖毓鬲乇 丕丿丕賲賴鈥屰� 丨乇賮鈥屬囏й屫� 乇丕 诏賵卮 讴賳賲...
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賮賯乇 丕爻鬲貙 賳丿丕乇蹖鈥屫池� 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖鈥屫池� 賵 賮賱丕讴鬲貙 丕賲丕 丌賳 賮賱丕讴鬲蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 丕賲蹖賱 夭賵賱丕 丿乇 芦跇乇賲蹖賳丕賱禄 賵 亘乇禺蹖 丿蹖诏乇 丕夭 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 丕夭 丌賳 賳丕賱蹖丿賴鈥屫з嗀�... 趩爻 賳丕賱賴鈥屰� 禺丕賱氐 賳蹖爻鬲貙 亘賱讴賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 趩爻 賳丕賱賴 乇丕 亘賴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 爻倬乇丿賴 讴賴 丕诏乇 禺賵丕爻鬲 爻乇 丿賴丿 賵 賳禺賵丕爻鬲 亘賴 丿乇賵賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘乇賵丿貙 丿賵 亘爻鬲賳蹖 賵丕賳蹖賱蹖 亘诏蹖乇丿貙 丿爻鬲 賲賵賲賵 乇丕 亘诏蹖乇丿 賵 亘丕 禺賵丿 亘賴 诏乇丿卮 亘亘乇丿.
賳丕賱賴 賵 卮讴賵賴 讴賳蹖賲 蹖丕 賳讴賳蹖賲貙 賮賯乇 賵噩賵丿 丿丕卮鬲賴貙 丿丕乇丿 賵 禺賵丕賴丿 丿丕卮鬲... 鬲丕 丕亘丿.
賲蹖丕賳 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й� 賮賯蹖乇 賵 孬乇賵鬲賲賳丿 賴賲 丿蹖賵丕乇蹖鈥屫池� 賲爻鬲丨讴賲貙 賳賴 丿賳蹖丕蹖 丕蹖賳 丿賵 卮亘蹖賴 亘賴 賴賲 賴爻鬲 賵 賳賴 丕賮讴丕乇卮丕賳貙 賴賲丕賳鈥屫焚堌� 讴賴 丿讴鬲乇 爻賱蹖賳 丿乇 芦爻賮乇 亘賴 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 卮亘禄 诏賮鬲:
"倬賵賱丿丕乇賴丕蹖 倬丕乇蹖爻貙 讴賳丕乇 蹖讴鈥屫屭� 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀�. 賲丨賱賴鈥屫簇з� 亘賴 卮讴賱 蹖讴 亘乇卮 丕夭 讴蹖讴賽 卮賴乇 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賳賵讴卮 亘賴 賱賵賵乇 賲蹖鈥屫堌必� 賵 鬲賴 诏乇丿卮 賲蹖丕賳 丿乇禺鬲鈥屬囏й� 亘蹖賳賽 倬賱 丕賵鬲賵蹖 賵 丿乇賵丕夭賴鈥屰� 鬲乇賳. 亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 賱賯賲賴鈥屰� 卮賴乇 賴賲蹖賳 丕爻鬲貙 亘賯蹖賴鈥屫ж� 賮賱丕讴鬲 丕爻鬲 賵 讴孬丕賮鬲."
丕賲丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿乇 賴賲丕賳 賮賱丕讴鬲 賵 讴孬丕賮鬲 賴賲 噩丕乇蹖鈥屫池�. 丌乇夭賵賴丕蹖 賯卮賳诏貙 乇賵蹖丕賴丕 賵 禺蹖丕賱鈥屬囏� 乇賳诏蹖 賵 ... 丌乇蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 噩丕乇蹖鈥屫池�.
讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲貙 趩賳丿 亘丕乇 亘睾囟 讴乇丿賲 賵 丿賱賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 賲賵賲賵 乇丕 丿乇 丌睾賵卮 賲蹖鈥屭辟佖� 賵 丕賵 乇丕 亘賴 禺丕賳賴 賲蹖鈥屫①堌必�. 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賲賵賲賵 丿乇 賯賱亘賲 亘乇丕蹖 賴賲蹖卮賴 賲丕賳丿诏丕乇 卮丿. 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 丿賵爻鬲丕賳賲 倬蹖卮 丕夭 賲賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賴鈥屫з嗀� 丕賲丕 亘乇丕蹖 丌賳丕賳 讴賴 賴賳賵夭 亘賴 爻乇丕睾卮 賳乇賮鬲賴鈥屫з嗀� 禺賵丕賳丿賳卮 乇丕 倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
賱蹖賳讴 賮丕蹖賱 倬蹖鈥屫屸€屫з佖� 賳爻禺賴鈥屰� 亘丕夭賳賵蹖爻蹖 卮丿賴 賵 賲鬲賳 讴丕賲賱 讴鬲丕亘
亘蹖爻鬲 賵 賴卮鬲賲 丌匕乇賲丕賴 蹖讴鈥屬囏藏ж� 賵 趩賴丕乇氐丿 賵 蹖讴
丌蹖丕 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 亘蹖 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 讴爻蹖 乇丕 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖賲貙 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴賳蹖賲責
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賳賵卮鬲賳 丨鬲蹖 丿乇 丨丿 趩賳丿 爻胤乇貙 亘乇丕蹖 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й屰� 賲孬賱 賲賳 讴賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 丨乇賮蹖 亘乇丕蹖 夭丿賳 倬蹖丿丕 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 賳蹖夭 诏丕賴蹖 讴丕乇蹖 爻禺鬲 賵 丿卮賵丕乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�!
趩賴 讴鬲丕亘蹖 亘賵丿! 爻賴 讴丕賲 丨亘爻 賲賵賲賵 亘乇丕蹖 乇爻蹖丿賳 亘賴 乇爻鬲诏丕乇蹖...
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲賵賲賵 (賲丨賲丿)貙 倬爻乇蹖 毓乇亘貙 倬爻乇 賲丕丿乇蹖 噩賳丿賴 亘賴 賳丕賲 毓丕蹖卮賴 賵 倬丿乇蹖 噩丕讴卮 亘賴 賳丕賲 蹖賵爻賮 丕爻鬲. 賲賵賲賵 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 卮睾賱 賲丕丿乇卮 讴賴 賴乇 乇賵夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 亘丕 倬丕蹖蹖賳 鬲賳賴鈥屰� 禺賵丿 賲蹖鈥屭嗀必з嗀� 賵 賲卮鬲乇蹖鈥屬囏й屫� 丕夭 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 亘趩賴鈥屫й� 丕胤乇丕賮鈥屫簇з� 亘丕卮丿 禺賵卮鈥屫簇з� 賳賲蹖鈥屫③屫� 賴賲丕賳賳丿 爻丕蹖乇 亘趩賴鈥屬囏й� 賲卮丕亘賴 禺賵丿 亘賴 丕卮禺丕氐蹖 噩賴鬲 賳诏賴丿丕乇蹖 賵 乇卮丿 爻倬乇丿賴 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 亘賴 夭賳蹖 蹖賴賵丿蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 賲丕丿丕賲 乇夭丕 讴賴 丕賵 賳蹖夭 丿乇 乇賵夭诏丕乇 噩賵丕賳蹖 亘賴 丨乇賮賴鈥屰� 賲丕丿乇 賲賵賲賵 丕卮鬲睾丕賱 丿丕卮鬲賴貙 賵 丨丕賱 丕賵 鬲亘丿蹖賱 诏卮鬲賴 亘賴 鬲賲丕賲 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲賵賲賵 賵 賮讴乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 亘丿賵賳 丕賵 賳蹖夭 賵丨卮鬲 亘賴 噩丕賳卮 賲蹖鈥屫з嗀ж藏�.
賳賵毓 亘蹖丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕夭 夭亘丕賳 賲賵賲賵貙 丿乇 賴賲丕賳 丌睾丕夭 賲賳 乇丕 亘乇丿 亘賴 賮囟丕蹖蹖 讴賴 氐亘丨 鬲丕 卮亘 賲蹖鈥屬嗀簇池� 倬丕蹖 丨乇賮鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 賮乇丿蹖賳丕賳 亘丕乇丿丕賲賵 蹖讴 賳賮爻 丿乇 芦賲乇诏 賯爻胤蹖禄 亘乇丕蹖賲 鬲毓乇蹖賮 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 賵 卮亘 丌賱丕乇賲 诏賵卮蹖鈥屫з� 乇丕 鬲賳馗蹖賲 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 讴賴 趩賴丕乇 氐亘丨 亘蹖丿丕乇 卮賵賲 賵 賴乇趩賴 爻乇蹖毓鬲乇 丕丿丕賲賴鈥屰� 丨乇賮鈥屬囏й屫� 乇丕 诏賵卮 讴賳賲...
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賮賯乇 丕爻鬲貙 賳丿丕乇蹖鈥屫池� 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖鈥屫池� 賵 賮賱丕讴鬲貙 丕賲丕 丌賳 賮賱丕讴鬲蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 丕賲蹖賱 夭賵賱丕 丿乇 芦跇乇賲蹖賳丕賱禄 賵 亘乇禺蹖 丿蹖诏乇 丕夭 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 丕夭 丌賳 賳丕賱蹖丿賴鈥屫з嗀�... 趩爻 賳丕賱賴鈥屰� 禺丕賱氐 賳蹖爻鬲貙 亘賱讴賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 趩爻 賳丕賱賴 乇丕 亘賴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 爻倬乇丿賴 讴賴 丕诏乇 禺賵丕爻鬲 爻乇 丿賴丿 賵 賳禺賵丕爻鬲 亘賴 丿乇賵賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘乇賵丿貙 丿賵 亘爻鬲賳蹖 賵丕賳蹖賱蹖 亘诏蹖乇丿貙 丿爻鬲 賲賵賲賵 乇丕 亘诏蹖乇丿 賵 亘丕 禺賵丿 亘賴 诏乇丿卮 亘亘乇丿.
賳丕賱賴 賵 卮讴賵賴 讴賳蹖賲 蹖丕 賳讴賳蹖賲貙 賮賯乇 賵噩賵丿 丿丕卮鬲賴貙 丿丕乇丿 賵 禺賵丕賴丿 丿丕卮鬲... 鬲丕 丕亘丿.
賲蹖丕賳 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й� 賮賯蹖乇 賵 孬乇賵鬲賲賳丿 賴賲 丿蹖賵丕乇蹖鈥屫池� 賲爻鬲丨讴賲貙 賳賴 丿賳蹖丕蹖 丕蹖賳 丿賵 卮亘蹖賴 亘賴 賴賲 賴爻鬲 賵 賳賴 丕賮讴丕乇卮丕賳貙 賴賲丕賳鈥屫焚堌� 讴賴 丿讴鬲乇 爻賱蹖賳 丿乇 芦爻賮乇 亘賴 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 卮亘禄 诏賮鬲:
"倬賵賱丿丕乇賴丕蹖 倬丕乇蹖爻貙 讴賳丕乇 蹖讴鈥屫屭� 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀�. 賲丨賱賴鈥屫簇з� 亘賴 卮讴賱 蹖讴 亘乇卮 丕夭 讴蹖讴賽 卮賴乇 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賳賵讴卮 亘賴 賱賵賵乇 賲蹖鈥屫堌必� 賵 鬲賴 诏乇丿卮 賲蹖丕賳 丿乇禺鬲鈥屬囏й� 亘蹖賳賽 倬賱 丕賵鬲賵蹖 賵 丿乇賵丕夭賴鈥屰� 鬲乇賳. 亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 賱賯賲賴鈥屰� 卮賴乇 賴賲蹖賳 丕爻鬲貙 亘賯蹖賴鈥屫ж� 賮賱丕讴鬲 丕爻鬲 賵 讴孬丕賮鬲."
丕賲丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿乇 賴賲丕賳 賮賱丕讴鬲 賵 讴孬丕賮鬲 賴賲 噩丕乇蹖鈥屫池�. 丌乇夭賵賴丕蹖 賯卮賳诏貙 乇賵蹖丕賴丕 賵 禺蹖丕賱鈥屬囏� 乇賳诏蹖 賵 ... 丌乇蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 噩丕乇蹖鈥屫池�.
讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲貙 趩賳丿 亘丕乇 亘睾囟 讴乇丿賲 賵 丿賱賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 賲賵賲賵 乇丕 丿乇 丌睾賵卮 賲蹖鈥屭辟佖� 賵 丕賵 乇丕 亘賴 禺丕賳賴 賲蹖鈥屫①堌必�. 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賲賵賲賵 丿乇 賯賱亘賲 亘乇丕蹖 賴賲蹖卮賴 賲丕賳丿诏丕乇 卮丿. 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 丿賵爻鬲丕賳賲 倬蹖卮 丕夭 賲賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賴鈥屫з嗀� 丕賲丕 亘乇丕蹖 丌賳丕賳 讴賴 賴賳賵夭 亘賴 爻乇丕睾卮 賳乇賮鬲賴鈥屫з嗀� 禺賵丕賳丿賳卮 乇丕 倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
賱蹖賳讴 賮丕蹖賱 倬蹖鈥屫屸€屫з佖� 賳爻禺賴鈥屰� 亘丕夭賳賵蹖爻蹖 卮丿賴 賵 賲鬲賳 讴丕賲賱 讴鬲丕亘
亘蹖爻鬲 賵 賴卮鬲賲 丌匕乇賲丕賴 蹖讴鈥屬囏藏ж� 賵 趩賴丕乇氐丿 賵 蹖讴
March 25, 2025
La claque litt茅raire de l'ann茅e pour le moment.
Wow. wow. wow
Que dire ?
je ne m'attendais 脿 rien en commen莽ant ce bouquin, ou plut么t si, 脿 de la grande litt茅rature parce que Romain Gary, c'est un nom qui parle 脿 tout le monde, m锚me 脿 ceux qui ne lisent pas.
Et je ne fus pas d茅莽ue un seul instant. Quelle litt茅rature !!
Dans ce livre on suit l'histoire 脿 la premi猫re personne de Mohammed, enfant de prostitu茅 recueilli par une ex prostitu茅e elle m锚me appel茅e Madame Rosa, juive, qui s'occupe de ces enfants d茅pos茅s par leur m猫re en attendant d'avoir assez d'argent et de temps pour s'en occuper. Il raconte l'histoire de son quartier, de son immeuble, des gens qui les peuplent et surtout, il nous parle de madame Rosa.
Je n'ai pas une seule seconde envie de plus vous d茅crire cette histoire qu'il faut selon moi go没ter par soi-m锚me, mais cette 茅criture si enfantine, si simple, si poignante et si crue de v茅rit茅 et de sentiments m'a d茅sar莽onn茅e tout du long. J'ai rarement fait d茅fil茅 les pages d'un classiques aussi vite, en 15 minutes j'avais lu 45 pages...
Bref, Merci Romain Gary pour la beaut茅, j'ai tr猫s tr猫s h芒te de lire "la promesse de l'aube" de lui...
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Que dire ?
je ne m'attendais 脿 rien en commen莽ant ce bouquin, ou plut么t si, 脿 de la grande litt茅rature parce que Romain Gary, c'est un nom qui parle 脿 tout le monde, m锚me 脿 ceux qui ne lisent pas.
Et je ne fus pas d茅莽ue un seul instant. Quelle litt茅rature !!
Dans ce livre on suit l'histoire 脿 la premi猫re personne de Mohammed, enfant de prostitu茅 recueilli par une ex prostitu茅e elle m锚me appel茅e Madame Rosa, juive, qui s'occupe de ces enfants d茅pos茅s par leur m猫re en attendant d'avoir assez d'argent et de temps pour s'en occuper. Il raconte l'histoire de son quartier, de son immeuble, des gens qui les peuplent et surtout, il nous parle de madame Rosa.
Je n'ai pas une seule seconde envie de plus vous d茅crire cette histoire qu'il faut selon moi go没ter par soi-m锚me, mais cette 茅criture si enfantine, si simple, si poignante et si crue de v茅rit茅 et de sentiments m'a d茅sar莽onn茅e tout du long. J'ai rarement fait d茅fil茅 les pages d'un classiques aussi vite, en 15 minutes j'avais lu 45 pages...
Bref, Merci Romain Gary pour la beaut茅, j'ai tr猫s tr猫s h芒te de lire "la promesse de l'aube" de lui...
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