Antichrista
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Sin duda cada ser tiene, en el universo de lo escrito, una obra que le convertirá en lector, suponiendo que el destino favorezca su encuentro. Lo que Platón dice de la mitad amorosa, ese otro ser que circula por alguna parte y que conviene encontrar a riesgo de permanecer incompleto hasta el día de tu muerte, es todavía más auténtico en el caso de los libros.
There is only one key to knowledge, and that is desire.
Para bailar, hay que merecerlo. Bailar sobre un escenario y delante de público constituye la mayor de las felicidades. A decir verdad, incluso sin público, incluso sin escenario, bailar es el colmo de la embriaguez. Una alegría tan profunda justifica los sacrificios más crueles. La educación que os damos aquí tiende a presentar la danza como lo que es: no un medio sino una recompensa.
Ten is the most sunlit moment of growing up.
Annoncer à Plectrude qu'elle ne pourrait plus danser revenait à annoncer à Napoléon qu'il n'aurait jamais plus d'armée: c'était la priver non pas de sa vocation mais de son destin. Elle ne pouvait pas y croire. Elle interrogea tous les médecins possibles et imaginables: il n'y en eut pas un pour lui laisser une lueur d'espoir. Il faut les en féliciter: il eût suffi que l'un d'entre eux lui accordât un centième de chance de guérison et elle s'y fût accrochée au point d'y laisser la vie.
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Antichrista
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"To have an extraordinary life, Lucette believes, one must have an extraordinary name. Horrified by the pedestrian names her husband chooses for their unborn child (Tanguy if it's a boy, Joelle if it's a girl), Lucette does the only honorable thing to save her baby from such an unexceptional destiny - she kills her spouse. While in prison, Lucette gives birth to a daughter to whom she bequeaths the portentous name of an obscure saint, Plectrude, before hanging herself." From her beginnings, Plectrude seems fated for a life like no other. Raised by an indulgent and adoring aunt, she is a dreamy child who is discovered to have enormous gifts as a dancer. Accepted at Paris's most prestigious ballet school, Plectrude devotes herself to artistic perfection, giving dance her heart and soul - and ultimately her body. As her world shatters as easily as her bones, she learns to survive in the onl
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- First published
- 2002
- Author
- Amélie Nothomb
- Genre
- Fiction
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- 3.63 (6k ratings)
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