Misthorn lullaby

Author: Florence Delay
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: The novel depicts the various stages of a polite love through five chapters, allowing readers to understand the passion of the saleswoman Charly for Adèle. Adèle, who only has her family in her heart at first, remains indifferent to this passion but is eventually conquered by it and finds happiness. The tone of this novel is quite peculiar, on one hand, it is the complex emotional world of the protagonist, on the other hand, it is the ordinary and mundane daily life in the Saint-Germain district of Paris, which are awkwardly combined. A kind of emotional torment similar to that of Queen Clèves is mixed with the excitement of the boxer Cohen during the Buttié match, and overly delicate love games are also entangled with the cunning and sly of the ready-to-wear salesperson. However, Charly and Adèle do not follow their distant role models as a result; they are not taken away by misfortune in a docile manner. Instead, through a conscious or unconscious exploration of their differences, they finally dedicate themselves to the "joy of love."