The 3 best books by the suggestive Yasmina Reza

The undoubted dramatic streak of Yasmina reza mark your prose incursion into the same theatricalization of all. Something notorious especially in their characters more than overexposed overexposed to the world. Because in friction with the world there are those who suffer injuries and those who feel a pleasant friction.

That is what life is about in a tragicomic review in charge of covering all our subjective notions that make up reality. We are contrasts between the poles of happiness and sadness; the two masks of the comic Talia and the tragic Melomene.

Yasmina is in charge in her books of placing us in front of the mirror through some mimetic characters immediately with any soul from the virtue of a narrator who knows the emotional twists and turns through which our will passes.

Top 3 recommended novels by Yasmina Reza

Art

The concept of art. The impossible definition by nature. Everything that tries to limit "art" ends up slipping, even from the supposed understandings of the matter. Because art is defined by the feeling of the observer, that is the true heritage of the artistic. And no one can encompass it, let alone encircle it.

From such subjective impressions, transformation is always possible. Hence this story where art is the symbol of change, discovery, escape, freedom despite everything. And the script of the idea ends up arousing both surprise and hilarity as well as confusion.

Sergio has bought a modern painting for a large sum of money. Marcos hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his likes such a work. Ivan tries, unsuccessfully, to appease both parties. If your friendship is based on a mutual unspoken agreement, what happens when one person does something completely different and unexpected?

The question is: are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are? This dazzling Yasmina Reza comedy premiered in Paris at the Comédie des Champs-Elysées in October 1994, where it ran for 18 months; in Berlin, at the Schaubühne Theater in October 1995; in London, at Wyndham's Theater in October 1996; in New York, at the Royal Theater in March 1998, and in Madrid, at the Marquina Theater in September 1998, in a version directed by Josep Maria Flotats that won four Max awards and some of the most prestigious awards of our country. country.

Art, by Yasmina Reza

Happy the happy

I am me and what I fuck. A maxim slightly retouched to make it clear what sex is in us as a manifestation of the ultimate life drive. Because the search for that "petite mort" that is the exit from the orgasm is always distorted by reason, by morality, by all kinds of conditions that expose us to live that encounter of the most physical passion with the spiritual in the most unsuspected ...

Extramarital affairs, sadomasochistic tendencies, sexual dissatisfactions and consummate fantasies, breakups, disappointments, and also happy endings. Yasmina Reza masterfully weaves the stories of the lives of eighteen characters who seem to have nothing in common.

But as the reader is hypnotized by the voices that make up the plot, they will discover their unexpected and surprising interrelations. Thus, Pascaline and Lionel Hutner's marriage routine is interrupted when they discover that their son's obsession with Céline Dion has turned pathological.

And, in turn, her psychiatrist, Igor Lorrain, lives a passionate reunion with a young love, Hélène, who is married to Raoul Barnèche, a professional bridge player capable of becoming enraged to the point of eating a letter ... If something stands out in Reza's style, it is his ability to build a melodic polyphony, a writing that unfolds masterfully in multiple variations, where the reader perceives with perfect clarity the voice of each of its protagonists.

In this choral novel, the French author opens the channel to the souls of her characters, who reveal their phobias and sentimental and sexual philias. Like Schopenhauer's On the Sleigh, the novel is a cynical, foul-mouthed and at times hilarious dissection of human nature, but also a poignant reflection on the brevity of our passage through life, and the importance of assuming a full existence.

Happy the happy

On Schopenhauer's sleigh

Quoting Schopenhauer is due fulfillment for every self-respecting pessimist. Because the nihilism of Nietzsche it is already too much while good old Schope always maintains his elegant fatalism. But it is what there is, they are our references and we cling to them to give way to vital phases or beliefs to be consolidated ...

Ariel Chipman, a philosophy professor who has devoted his life to proclaiming the imperative of the enjoyment of living, falls into a depression. Nadine Chipman, his wife, begins to be fed up with her husband and wonders why not be unfaithful to him.

Serge Othon Weil, the couple's close friend, claims to have understood that wondering about life as a whole is meaningless and rejects any hint of transcendence. And Ariel's psychiatrist rants against sentimentality. But what all of them have experienced is that moment in which our existence seems to be irretrievably emptied of meaning. And then a flood of questions shows us that the world is not as we have known it. It is the minute moment in which we know ourselves to be beings doomed to death ...

On Schopenhauer's sleigh
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