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The Pavel Stein Affair
by Gérald Tenenbaum, published on August 26, 2021 by Editions Cohen & Cohen.
Her favorite quote:
“What is lacking in today's world is vision, in the most delighted sense of the term. "
Why this book?
Because Gérald Tenenbaum loves words.
By his writing, he obliges them, or rather he offers them the possibility of giving the best of themselves.
He weaves them, braids them, to make subtle, delicate, poetic sentences in a text that could seem ethereal.
But it takes on its full meaning when we let it rise in us, brush against us, fill us with its deep and secret phrasing.
Because this story in the first person of the feminine speaks to us about encounters,
transmission, the place of our beliefs, what they bring us, what we are looking for.
Power struggles, the choices of men and women, their decisions that can change the course of a life are also mentioned.
Because the author gives a place to figures, numbers,
singular existences, in filigree of what he presents.
Faced with prose, they express a form of rationalization in a context where the letters creating the words, dominate, escaping to follow their life, their destiny ... For some people, mathematics returns a very "material" image, whereas 'they can invite, as in this collection, to the journey towards the other, but also in oneself ...
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Paula, a journalist, meets Pavel Stein, an atypical filmmaker.
Their meeting is off the beaten track and a unique relationship is formed.
One day, the filmmaker invites Paula to Tibet where he is staying.
The life of the young woman will be turned upside down.
Characters.
Paula Goldmann, a journalist.
Pavel Stein, a filmmaker.
Some other people they know.
Places.
Paris, Tibet (a monastery).
The time.
Before the year 2000 then twenty years later
The author.
Gérald Tenenbaum is a French mathematician, essayist and novelist.
A former student of the École Polytechnique, he is professor of mathematics at the Élie Cartan Institute of the University of Lorraine.
He wrote several novels including
The Order of Days
which received the Erckmann-Chatrian Prize.
This book was read
like an enchanted parenthesis, where each word is savored, in a rhythm that may seem calm but where everything is experienced intensely.
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