France output plant prices increased by 7Nature to regain its rights has nothing surprisingWell seen this obligation goes extremely far It should be held as early as midNovemberWarranty on invoiceShort term has no futureThere is not two taxable mutations but oneThirtyfive portraits by him or his workshopThe elect are organized to be their territoryIn this regard the spectacular fall of Madrid 8Others live up to a hundred kilometres aroundThis book is huge. In every sense of the term. A large pad of 776 pages writing tight, which flows from source. A raging torrent that leads you four days (four hours) of frenzied reading, after a mad and strong, alternately comic and tragic history. "melnitz" is one of the novels foreign lighthouses of la rentrée littéraire. Work of Charles Lewinsky, writer and Swiss playwright, he says in five times (1871, 1893, 1913, 1937, 1945) the adventures of the Meijer, a Jewish family for five generations, Endingen, Baden and Zurich. Without dramatic effects, by small keys, Lewinsky has reinvented a fallen genus obsolete the family saga and his "Melnitz", before publication in France, is already an international bestseller.
Exit descriptions without end, the decor streets, houses, landscapes are planted a few sharp words. The characters, color, are away to hot, with the acuity of a photographer their physical features such as the maze of their soul are rendered with a striking relief. Especially, the writer Swiss is a remarkable storyteller against the banal, trimbale with happiness of the small to the large history and manages to make the epic daily. Bravery in beating of theatre pieces, following passionately the joys and woes of the Meijer family, to have the impression to be a part. It vibrates with the model couple Zalman-Himda, it laughs at the whims of the futile Mimi, it suffers with Arthur, homosexual doctor in the big heart. It flutters when the sounds of boots swollen at the borders. Because "melnitz" carries a powerful message. The universal persecution of the Jews, who spared no country, even a State deemed as neutral and democratic than the Switzerland. Lewinsky recalled that there was an active Brown front at the time of the rise of Nazism. The Meijer know well at the bottom that their "oasis" is fragile. For some people choose to convert as François, which in the 1900s wants to establish an empire of stores, but may not buy the land that he covets to Christians. Later, others, such as Hillel, disgusted by the progression of Nazi ideas, young married the Zionist dream. For the rest, the Meijer, even in the face of adversity, to assume their status as Jews Swiss with fullness and dignity.
Overflowing humanity
When they forget where they came from and who they are, their conscience recalled them in the form of a ghost. One of the ancestor, the founder: the uncle Melnitz. Man of the theatre, Charles Lewinsky recalls Hamlet or the statue of the Commendatore in Dom Juan. But the uncle Melnitz is a phantom share. A phantom Jewish, lucid, humorous and dark, almost palpable is angry when his family derailed. It helps each convinces Hannele, the daughter adopted, does not waive by pride to marriage with Janki, the man she loves. corrects the other François convert. Always with an acid irony and a boundless humanity.
In 1945, the conscience becomes memory. The uncle Melnitz smiles more he represents the dead, all dead victims of the Holocaust. It is behind every man, every woman, every Switzerland, Jewish or Gentile, friend of the victims or accomplice of the executioners, to remind them of the message desperate martyrs. "After his death, it was." Always. He had not come alone. This time he had taken of reinforcement. A itself alone, could tell such a number of stories. They thousand throughout the city. Across the country. The whole earth.