Title : Goya's Ghosts - Jean-Claude Carriere Milos Forman - book

Summary :

Set against the backdrop of the decline of the Inquisition and the strong resonance of the French Revolution, this story contrasts two visions of the world: that of an extremist who wants to change the world, Lorenzo, and that of a painter, Goya, who seeks to paint the world as it is.

A man from the people, a Spaniard named Lorenzo, who became an inquisitor by conviction, fails in his mission, in a rather grotesque way. He flees to France, later he returns. He has changed his faith, his ideas are new, but he is still the same man: an extremist. In a turbulent era (Spain at the time of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars), Lorenzo will try to act, to make the world a better place, and this under the eyes of Goya, who sees nothing. There are those who, like Lorenzo, want to change the world at all costs and those who, like Goya, are content to show it as they see it. A story of misguidance, of divine and human passions, of love, of power, of illusions, which says that there can be an extremism of freedom, as well as of oppression, and that light can blind just as much as darkness.

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