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Peeing A Lot What Tests ?
Romain Gary, La vita davanti a sé
something and I knew I had read something of Romain Gary, but nothing of this novel. I am therefore very grateful to my friend Daniel made me understand that because it is great, and above all a pleasure to read with unforgettable characters and brilliant writing in the return point of view of a streetwise kid so much as a candidate, the disenchanted as capable of tenderness. Released nel 1975, si svolge nella stessa Belleville che diventerà famosa nei romanzi di Pennac (ma Pennac dov'è finito? completamente passato di moda con l'ondata di paura e xenofobia che spazza tanto la Francia quanto l'Italia? davvero non lo merita, anche se dopo il debordante pateracchio Messieur Malaussène non solo più riuscita a leggerlo) e mette in campo un io narrante di nome Mohammed detto Momò, di anni dieci ma forse quattordici, figlio di una puttana mussulmana che l'ha messo a pensione da Madame Rosa (ma forse no) e poi l'ha dimenticato. Madame Rosa è una vecchia ex puttana ebrea, scampata a Auschwitz, grassissima, malata e un po' disgustosa, che tiene in casa un numero variabile di ragazzini, tutti children of prostitutes who can not keep them because when a woman is forced to make life, not entitled to have the parental authority is the prostitution that takes . Thus says Momo, who listens to everything I say and repeat it with great candor his mercilessly. Momo is growing among the other children, Banana who is always cheerful, Moise little jew, his old friend Mr. Hamil who teaches Arabic and the Koran, Madame Lola's generous transvestite who beats the Bois de Boulogne, Mr N 'From the Amédée prossineta , and everyone he meets on the street. His dark node is the abandonment, lack of the mother, but you would get an eye rather than admit it. How you would get a look before accepting the desperate love that binds him to Madame Rosa. Wandering down the street sneaks, sudden events with her umbrella humanized Arthur, talks with the street prostitutes who cuddle and give gifts, we choose parents of choice and follows them to see where they live. When Madame Rosa is definitely sick, this whole world is mobilized to help the excluded, the Jew Dr. Katz brothers Waloumba to blacks, but things fall and the last, frenetic chapters drama leaves us open-mouthed, shocked and moved. Because this novel is about loneliness and sorrow, solidarity and exclusion, fear that never disappears and death, heat and pain and love, but does so lightly, with a tenderness so full of shame, which in the end only fully reflected. Meanwhile, we also laughed and smiled, without being smeared for doing good nor excessive optimism of the will (to Pennac, for instance) and what remains is good humor, and love for life. And the unforgettable voice of Momo.
Excellent translation of John Bogle. 
something and I knew I had read something of Romain Gary, but nothing of this novel. I am therefore very grateful to my friend Daniel made me understand that because it is great, and above all a pleasure to read with unforgettable characters and brilliant writing in the return point of view of a streetwise kid so much as a candidate, the disenchanted as capable of tenderness. Released nel 1975, si svolge nella stessa Belleville che diventerà famosa nei romanzi di Pennac (ma Pennac dov'è finito? completamente passato di moda con l'ondata di paura e xenofobia che spazza tanto la Francia quanto l'Italia? davvero non lo merita, anche se dopo il debordante pateracchio Messieur Malaussène non solo più riuscita a leggerlo) e mette in campo un io narrante di nome Mohammed detto Momò, di anni dieci ma forse quattordici, figlio di una puttana mussulmana che l'ha messo a pensione da Madame Rosa (ma forse no) e poi l'ha dimenticato. Madame Rosa è una vecchia ex puttana ebrea, scampata a Auschwitz, grassissima, malata e un po' disgustosa, che tiene in casa un numero variabile di ragazzini, tutti children of prostitutes who can not keep them because when a woman is forced to make life, not entitled to have the parental authority is the prostitution that takes . Thus says Momo, who listens to everything I say and repeat it with great candor his mercilessly. Momo is growing among the other children, Banana who is always cheerful, Moise little jew, his old friend Mr. Hamil who teaches Arabic and the Koran, Madame Lola's generous transvestite who beats the Bois de Boulogne, Mr N 'From the Amédée prossineta , and everyone he meets on the street. His dark node is the abandonment, lack of the mother, but you would get an eye rather than admit it. How you would get a look before accepting the desperate love that binds him to Madame Rosa. Wandering down the street sneaks, sudden events with her umbrella humanized Arthur, talks with the street prostitutes who cuddle and give gifts, we choose parents of choice and follows them to see where they live. When Madame Rosa is definitely sick, this whole world is mobilized to help the excluded, the Jew Dr. Katz brothers Waloumba to blacks, but things fall and the last, frenetic chapters drama leaves us open-mouthed, shocked and moved. Because this novel is about loneliness and sorrow, solidarity and exclusion, fear that never disappears and death, heat and pain and love, but does so lightly, with a tenderness so full of shame, which in the end only fully reflected. Meanwhile, we also laughed and smiled, without being smeared for doing good nor excessive optimism of the will (to Pennac, for instance) and what remains is good humor, and love for life. And the unforgettable voice of Momo.
Excellent translation of John Bogle.
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