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Your slumber and your jealousy are killing me. Your neglect and absence kill me. I am here between the magic of your fingertips before dawn opens his heart and eyes. Do you still remember my beloved, or have travels, the call of dawn, and beautiful women of chance stolen you? Am I still in you like a bird that happily pecked your palm and then flew away so that you would not see its hidden sadness? On this day, I woke up to the rose of my heart between your lips. I felt the lines of your face with a tremor of fear that I would ignite her fleeing life. I saw the pupils of your eyes only to read the distances, the textures, and the seas that you crossed with a closed heart, to land exactly where you were destined to amaze me before you stole me. I saw you at the threshold of fear telling me what was in your heart, before you withdrew: I fear that I will die and not be satisfied with the touch of silk in your soul, nor with the storms of a body that was stolen since the first resurrection, nor with the luminous language that childhood buried in her heart, and closed tightly for fear of getting lost and forgotten. I search for you without fear of me, and I do not know how a lover can be the victim of a dream that he stole while unaware of his grief
يبدأ المؤلف كتابه بعد المقدمة بعنوان (حياة الحب)، وخاطب فيه حبيبته، ومازج بين وصف الطبيعة بفصولها الأربعة؛ الربيع، الصيف، الخريف والشتاء، وبين تعبيره عن حبه لمحبوبته ورغبته في بقائها إلى جانبه، ويعدّ فن وصف الطبيعة واحداً من أشهر وأهم المواضيع الشعرية والنثرية، وجليّ في الكتاب أن استخدم الكاتب هذا الفن بطريقة غزلية، .
Mario, the geometric painter, returns one day to his apartment in the city of Jaén, which he has shared for six years with his wife, Blanca. He finds that another woman, almost identical in features and gestures, has taken her place. He begins to turn over the memories and scrutinize the evidence, trying to discover the reasons for her absence, or to bring her back again. Somehow. Is Blanca really gone? What do you look for in the worlds you are immersed in and Mario is forbidden from entering?
In this intense and interesting novel, the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina delves deeply into the relationship of a man and a woman whose destinies intersected before their world began to shake under the influence of differences and the monotony of life. Molina sheds light on the complexity of emotional relationships and the conflicts experienced by couples who love in their partners today what they may hate in them tomorrow...
