"For those who are compelled by their natures always to be looking back at what has been, rather than forward into the future, the great danger is tears, the unstoppable weeping that the Greeks, if not the author of Genesis, knew was not only a pain but a narcotic pleasure, too: a mournful contemplation so flawless, so crystalline, that it can, in the end, immobilize you."Daniel Mendelsohn, "The Lost, A search for six of six million"
Non, je ne suis pas entré dans la secte des adorateurs de Daniel Mendelsohn. Mais son dernier bouquin est puissant.
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