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Eclipse is the autobiographical work by a young artist living in New York. It describes, from the evening he was attacked and lost his sight, the two years it took to him to go back to Life and swim freely in the sea of Java. "I had to give birth to myself. The beautiful, unpredictable and eccentric ballerina, Valouchka, leads him into the reconquest of the dance with life. Hospital, Rehabilitation Centre, joy, despair, love. and one morning, he closes the door behind and flies alone to Indonesia. "Fear is the true Blindness". You experiment in those pages a deep meditation on life, love, perception, visual world and inner vision. Poignant, poetic and sometimes hilarious, this book is a Song to Life, which questions all of us.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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Vision was his livelihoodhe was an international painter until five years ago. Then one May night in Greenwich Village, two drugged thieves senselessly attacked him and destroyed his sight with acid. Hugues de Montalembert's confrontation with evil here takes him into a labyrinth of despair, anger, unending painphysical and emotional. A rebellious man, he finds innovative outlets in this new life. He mocks his therapists, condescending friends, patronizing strangers, even tender, caring women. A passionate love affair with a Russian ballerina helps him heal within and without. He paints with bold words his new fears of silence, of perennial darkness, of crowded Manhattan streets, but he conquers. He re-learns to read, to hear, to walk, to swim. And he rejoices. He learns to live perhaps more intensely than before. This is a poetic, sensual, compelling storyall the more irresistible because it is true. Eclipse is ultimately an evocative definition of sight. November
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