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Donna Tartt - THE MASTER OF ILLUSIONS

ink distilled from the scalpel: Anatomy of the Spirit, the need for the unthinkable.

My passion for contemporary American literature is particularly strong in the summer time. Sun, sand, waves that scour the illusions, corrosion masks ... Summer lends itself to readings Automne or winter would not have allowed to try, they are cautious, heavy rains from October to frost in March, only scholars have their place on my bedside student.
month of August bringing with him any bad conscience - why a new novel while those treated colossal legal theory have been waiting for centuries under a pile of dust? - I started here in this novel, unearthed by the merest chance. A catchy title, a fourth cover upon presentable for once.

Aside: when the house will decide Folio does understand that some lines taken at random, as brilliant as they were, placed behind a book unknown alarm nobody new readers to their pages that are foreign?

Enough digressions: Donna Tartt is a brilliant pen. That is said, bluntly. And this may suffice for me to jump on the book. Not you? Well, then I insist.
Lord of Illusions presents a bunch of students a few specific campus of Hampden, Vermont. They have this peculiarity that they are seven followers of a single teacher in charge of the drive towards a degree in Ancient Greek. Seven students, a teacher, an office. The story is narrated by Richard, a brave Californian innocent, immaculate in white, to whom it will take forever to understand that its surrounding facades are just straw, a heap of illusions.
Who takes the reins? Julian, the tutor a little strange - you can not help but think of Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society. Henry, the enigmatic head of the group, rich, generous but impenetrable? Francis, good shoulder on which each sits a little? Charles and Camilla, twins whose beauty is unparalleled and impeccable manners? Bunny, the bantering that all dunce world likes it anyway?

Admittedly, the exhibition is a bit long. Richard, the narrator a candid, arrived on campus in the normal course before joining this group. A comprehensive study of climate and indigenous habits gives us a comparison provided very California / Vermont. And the characters emerge. With precision but also with some confusion. Seven protagonists is a lot. And a multitude of recurring minor characters - we must all these people to fill seven hundred pages. Do not expect that stylistic analysis means schematically as "the modifying element" the initial situation before a very good quarter of the book. And locate them among the few portraits before that time be tough but worth it hang: the plot is revealed exciting, breathless. Donna Tartt

decrypts with unparalleled attention to detail the workings of crime - which, do not count on me to tell you! The unspeakable becomes necessary, the unthinkable is unavoidable, impregnable. And all this practically in real time, within seven points of view and at least through the eyes of a narrator irreproachable initially neutral, perfectly innocent, a bit manipulated, chouille an idiot on the edges.

is a masterpiece whose film adaptation, scheduled for a moment, waiting. A great moment of reading, a modern epic long matured and intelligent - the author has taken ten years to write. Do not put all to read.

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