Strange pitch, not to remember the great eruption of normalcy in the most confounding of Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
In Budapest in 1938, a man, Vadas Pal, an official post in the life metronomic, is suffering from a strange disease: its body exudes astronomical amounts of salt water. So Hungary that vibrates to the sirens Nazi Vadas sees his sweats progress in terms of key dates in the pre-war (Anschluss, Munich Agreement, Kristallnacht, the invasion of Poland).
Doctors, unable to name the evil echo the unnameable, the unspeakable mortification that gradually Europe. The author manages to avoid the classical terminology of Nazism (the term Nazi is never used, like Hitler, swastikas ...).
crises follow the progression of the character of the contamination of the Reich, each more violent and hallucinatory crisis than the last.
If the first part of the novel cleverly distills the parallels between story and great history, while maintaining the scientific mystery of evil (think Kafka), unfortunately, is tilted in the last third of the book to the explanation (scientific ). Metaphorical content (even mystical) disappears from the field and wet The man returns to a more narrative agreed and expected outcome.
While last year, Cadence Stéphane Velut, kept his commitments on a literary canvas eerily similar (in Hitler's Germany, an artist creates a perfect Aryan Doll by modeling the body badly of a girl), The Man wet fails to maintain its uniqueness.
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