That love can turn into something destructive was something that Freddy Mercury already sang in his song "too much love will kill you." So this book Sylvia becomes the literary version. As a curiosity of curiosities it should be noted that both works, the musical and the prosaic, came out to the world in 1992. Coincidence combined presentation of this idea of love, coexistence and destruction.
The love in question materializes on this occasion between Leonard (the author himself) and Sylvia. He latched on to her and felt that eternity that binds you to the moment, as if you could constantly live in a kiss, or in an embrace, as if you really wanted it that way, with the complete certainty that you want it that way.
It is irritating when everyone talks to you about coexistence and explains that you will have to go through the same punctual boredom, the same punctual disenchantment, for all that that accompanies what is important and that sometimes overcomes what is important. Leonard checks how irritating it is that everyone is right. His coexistence with Sylvia deteriorates by force, the meeting points jump out the window and sex or any other reason to stretch love becomes superfluous
It is not easy for Leonard to see how the being he loved and who made him feel special in the spell is now something else being the same thing. It's about the frustration of having everything you need in front of you without wanting to need it anymore. Come on, a whirlwind of emotions that both Leonard and Sylvia are incapable of managing.
It is said that the author, Leonard Michaels, took years to build this story, perhaps as a necessary balance in the face of the destruction of his love. But finally, after reading the book, one thing is verified: If you need years, or all the time in the world (because something inside you asks you to do so), to tell in such a precise, moving and always natural way any story, at less will you discover in the end that it has been worth it, you will probably present your best work to the world, even if it talks about something as contradictory as love and its destructive capacity.
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