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Кюртис Жан-Луи

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"The Thinking Reed" is the ninth novel by Jean-Louis Curtis (his real name is Louis Laffitte). Curtis's book is an intelligent and talented testimony to the impossibility of spiritual life in a spiritless society, to the deeply ideological crisis of the modern world.

The central character of the book is Martial Anglade, one of the directors and shareholders of an insurance company, a typical representative of "consumer civilization" who uses all its benefits and living according to the laws of the “consumer society”. He is devoid of spiritual needs, he has no intellectual interests. He is limited only by the external side of life - he makes money, and in his free time he enjoys rugby, drinks with friends, has mistresses, but at the same time he is a respectable family man, takes care of his wife and children.

And so the author suddenly forces his hero to experience the need for the spiritual side of life in the only way possible for such a person: by letting him feel a sudden fear of death. The unexpected death of his friend and peer Felix, who led approximately the same life as him, prompts Martial Anglade to think for the first time about questions of existence. Trying to do gymnastics, diet, even attend a beauty institute, he realizes that he cannot stop the passage of time. And then, for the first time in his life, he thinks about why everything works this way, and what the purpose is, and what the meaning of life is. In other words, he is trying to find a spiritual, moral, ideological support for his existence. In search of spiritual and moral support, Martial Anglade turns, overcoming mental laziness, to books and articles, to educational treatises. But even “trying them on,” adapting them to his “case,” Martial Anglade nowhere finds the answer to the question that torments him: why does he live, what is the meaning of his life? After all, they are driven by only one single desire - to enjoy the material side of life as long as possible. But in the end, the author finds for his hero only a rather limited, narrowed version of altruism: “heaven on earth is being with those you love.” So, finally, Martial Anglade finds his “heaven on earth” in love for his daughter, with whom a misfortune happened. The book ends almost symbolically: the hero of the novel merges with the crowd of passers-by. This actually means capitulation, reconciliation with fate, and the hero’s refusal to further search. This is how this “odyssey” of a man who tried to find ideological support without leaving the framework of his environment, in which it was impossible to find it, ends ingloriously.

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Publication date 1975
Bookbinding Hardcover

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