Title : The Book of Brief Eternal Loves - Andrei Makine - Book

Summary :

In "The Book of Brief Eternal Loves," Andrei Makine returns once again to the theme that obsesses him: human love. But it is not about carnal love or shared love, on a daily basis, with its ups and downs, as within a couple. It is about a purer, more intense love, free from our base earthly contingencies. In this collection of short stories, set in the former USSR, Makine evokes different situations: the gratuitous, selfless love of a young widow for her husband lost at sea, the love of a small, disfigured hunchback who offers flowers to a couple radiating happiness, the serene and mute love of a teenage girl for a friend she welcomes into her home every Wednesday, the love of an opponent of the regime, who will spend his life in prisons and gulags and will never stop thinking about the one he left behind... These "brief moments of eternal love" are accompanied by a feeling of fullness, of simplicity, where nature and beings appear in their perfect beauty. And Andrei Makine excels in the art of restoring situations, concrete details. So well that these short stories can also be read as fascinating vignettes on life in the USSR in the 20th century. Stronger than communist tyranny, stronger than all ideas and governments forged by men, human love, as seen by Makine, is a beacon shining in our desperate night, of which the writer is the fierce guardian. Its beams of light sweep across the page and burn the reader's eyes. Patrick Williams

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