Perhaps this book is one of the little good to pick from what was one of the great accidents of what we have been in the XNUMXst century. Ken follett He would park whatever he was doing to offer us a book written from the excruciating feeling of great loss.
Because beyond the fact that Almeida, the illustrious mayor of Madrid, considers that the fire destroying this great cathedral is worse than seeing the entire Amazon burn, the truth is that the image of the fire devouring the roofs of Notre Dame is a historical icon of what disastrous.
So Ken Follett serves a kind of impossible repair with this book, a kind of illustrious reminder for an architectural monument that collects an important part of the evolution of the world since that twelfth century in which it began to rise.
No one better than him, also a promoter of the myth of Notre-Dame (beyond its religious significance) in his historical novels, to evoke its meaning, its relevance and its repercussion in places of worship around the world.
The book, exceptionally small for what we know of Follett, is undoubtedly a literary epitaph about the fire that incinerated part of History. Because Notre-Dame will be rebuilt and its foundations will continue to support History and legend, but part of what was was carried away by smoke, burning centuries like nothing.
From Follet's personal sensations of loss to a chronology of the cathedral from 1163 to the present day. Reviews, details, anecdotes and essential moments.
In my case, I only had the opportunity to visit Notre-Dame once. But without a doubt this is a new great guide to the monument loaded with the greatest emotion, the best review to close the chapter of the material disaster that took with it that wealth combined between the material and the immaterial, between the ashlars that do not yield to fire and everything that was burned, a living memory of a whole civilization.
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