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"A woman lies bedridden from a high fever. Suddenly she is struck with an urge to revisit a novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a get-well-soon message from Johanna, an ex-girlfriend who is now a famous television host. As she flips through the book, pages from the woman's own past begin to come alive, scenes of events and people she cannot forget. There are moments with Johanna, and Niki, the friend who disappeared years ago without a phone number or an address and with no online footprint. There is Alejandro, who appears like a storm in precisely the right moment. And Brigitte, whose elusive qualities mask a painful secret. The Details is a novel built around four portraits; the small details that, pieced together, comprise a life. Can a loved one really disappear? Who is the real subject of the portrait, the person being painted or the one holding the brush? Do we fully become ourselves through our connections to others? This exhilarating, provocative tale raises profound questions about the nature of relationships, and how we tell our stories. The result is an intimate and illuminating study of what it means to be human"--… (plus d'informations)
Quarante ans dans la vie d’une femme, la narratrice, ses amours, ses amitiés, ses errances. Un roman sous forme de monologue intérieur en quatre époques, représentées par quatre personnes qui les ont marquées. Un texte déroutant mais brillant, introspectif, attaché aux détails de l’existence et des sentiments, et aux accents générationnels. ( )
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Nadat ik een paar dagen met het virus in mijn lijf heb rondgelopen krijg ik koorts en kom ik op het idee om een speciale roman te herlezen, maar pas als ik in bed ga zitten en het boek opensla, begrijp ik waarom.
After a few days of the virus in my body I come down with a fever, which is followed by an urge to return to a particular novel. (English)
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Up until that evening I'd always maintained that humans are basically rational, that behavior in general is motivated by calculations, whether simple or complex, conscious or misguided or inscrutable, but calculations nevertheless, and that there's some kind of intention in there about reaping, or advantage, about happiness, pleasure, joy maybe; that there's a kind of will humans are pretty much set to follow since they are basically wise, since they seek the best for themselves and sometimes also others. But when I knocked on that door, regarding my own knuckles—which were dried and chapped from the fall weather but warm from the night—next to the handwritten sign saying backstage + crew, I realized I'd been wrong, that it is only after the fact that we attach these calculations to our impulses, to the mad wild dogs that actually run our lives.
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'Binnenkort is het te laat,' zegt ze terwijl ze me de koffiekan overhandigt. 'Daarom moeten we ons uiterste best doen.'
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"A woman lies bedridden from a high fever. Suddenly she is struck with an urge to revisit a novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a get-well-soon message from Johanna, an ex-girlfriend who is now a famous television host. As she flips through the book, pages from the woman's own past begin to come alive, scenes of events and people she cannot forget. There are moments with Johanna, and Niki, the friend who disappeared years ago without a phone number or an address and with no online footprint. There is Alejandro, who appears like a storm in precisely the right moment. And Brigitte, whose elusive qualities mask a painful secret. The Details is a novel built around four portraits; the small details that, pieced together, comprise a life. Can a loved one really disappear? Who is the real subject of the portrait, the person being painted or the one holding the brush? Do we fully become ourselves through our connections to others? This exhilarating, provocative tale raises profound questions about the nature of relationships, and how we tell our stories. The result is an intimate and illuminating study of what it means to be human"--
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