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Fiction therefore: the little boy in question is mute. Of great sensitivity, he hears everything and sees everything but cannot express himself other than by scribbling words on a paper, “the symbol of his country” according to Levy. One evening, he is kidnapped from school and taken away from home to a boarding school with iron discipline. But the 9-year-old toddler is as courageous as he is clairvoyant. Its resistance is strong. While he is determined to escape, for their part, Veronika, his mother and Lilya, his sister, try to understand where he is being held and bravely set off in search of him…
We will have understood that, with The Symphony of Monsters the author has carried out both an adventure novel and the account of dramatic events in contemporary history. The rhythm is that of an epic. The tone is one of mutual assistance and affection. Because there are many secondary characters who come to the aid of nurse Veronika and her daughter. All endowed, moreover, with great humanist qualities. This is, without doubt, the secret of the success of Marc Levy, in dedication this weekend to Cosmopolite as part of “Angoulême indulges”, serious subjects treated through protagonists in struggle including solidarity and kindness does good. It’s deliberately simple and romantic but we enjoy it all the same!
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