الكتاب يركّز أساسا على الجماهير، أي الشعوب بمعنى آخر، وكيف أنّ هذه الجماهير تتعرض لوابل من الأفكار والمعتقدات الممارسة عليها، والتي تدخل ضمن العقل اللاواعي لتلك الجماهير، مما يجعلها في كثير من الأحيان تقوم بأمور خطيرة أو غير متوقعة ومتقلبة، بسبب ما تستقبله تلقائيا من المحيط حولها، وحاول لوبون دراسة العلاقة بين ما تقوم .
وهو يناقش موضوعات عدة، مثل فكرة الكمالية، أو السعي نحو الكمال، وأثر الحياة الاستهلاكية على البشر، وكيفية التعامل مع عادة التسويف والخوف المرضي والتفكير المفرط، ومخاطر الفراغ، وأهمية تحقيق التوازن بين مجالات الحياة، وكيف يتقبل الإنسان فكرة امتلاكه للكثير من العيوب، وأهمية القدرة على رفض الأوضاع التي لا تناسب الإنسان، ...
The book tells the story of seventeen-year-old John, who suffers from autism. His parents see the good in him, but the surrounding world only sees his faults.
John often made mistakes and always misunderstood things. He tries to fulfill the requests of the people around him to gain their satisfaction.
It is a tough period of development, bordering on isolation and difficulties at school.
John falls into the trap of his rivals and commits aggressive acts that lead him to decline.
But who bears John's fate?
Animal Friends is a poignant and transparent novel about isolation and vulnerability. Depicts the nostalgia and connections that can bind vulnerable people to each other.
The horizons of storytelling integrate like small overlapping circles, forming a tight narrative world.
The puppeteer Dingo's carriage hits a young child while passing through the village of Artemilla, the miserable village from which he fled years ago to join a troupe of acrobats, aspiring to make his entire life a continuous festival. He resorts to his old friend, Juan Medinao, to help him in this predicament, but his contact with the village master will finally awaken the details of the painful past, and with them he will begin a relentless journey through memory, recalling his relationship with his father, his mother’s suicide, and the mixture of hatred and love that he felt towards his brother. Stepbrother.
In this small-sized novel, but with a big impact, Anna Maria Matute is able to delve into the depths of her characters, searching for the deep scars that childhood leaves in their souls, revealing with keen insight and high sensitivity the most complex and profound human feelings, in a dense narrative that makes room for emotional feelings. Inferiority, fear, isolation, and hatred can tell their story too.