In the cinema we already have several examples of sublimation of the harsh reality to protect the most vulnerable people. Billy Elliot or Life is Beautiful are two good examples. I had yet to find, in the recent narrative, some parallelism of that emotional intention of placebo against reality.
Voila. This Vibrato novel brings that healing intention in the face of an adverse, bleak reality. Music, love, passion ... of the few things that can save the human being before succumbing to fear, hatred, hopelessness, to all the worst that little lyrical souls end up pushing hard when they hold power, their only end in life.
Clara is that soul capable of transforming reality from the inside out. The subjective can beautify or alleviate pain. Only that only souls gifted for that conversion can achieve it.
Clara studies the violin, an excellent musical paradox of strings to compose the muted tone of the world in decline. Making music can take her away at times from the violence, from the hate that moves everything.
It is difficult to understand that behind the writing a tuning that moves the plot can be hidden. And yet it is wonderful to imagine that it could, that a story about someone who loves music could lead you on the notes of a vital plot. If you dare to read this book you will really discover that impossible composition between the literary and the musical.
From hidden spaces of a gray Berlin, the notes of Clara's violin are sometimes heard. Compositions that speak of the soul about to break. The violin strings cry like no other instrument can. Clara ends up crying in the echoes of her four strings.
But what is clear is that, if there is hope, it is born in music, in the capacity superior to words, those that do not reach the best wills when it comes to empathize or dialogue.
Ninety-nine bars to delve into as many complete literary sensations. Timeless sounds that capitulate this novel around Clara and around the reader, both immersed in the discovery of what remains when everything is lost ...
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