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published on 01/02/2024 at 09:05 a.m.
Thomas Schlesser returns with a very promising second novel: The Eyes of Mona published by Albin Michel this Thursday, February 1, 2024. In the latter, he tells the story of Mona, who at the age of nine will suddenly lose her sight . His family will try to understand with the help of a doctor the reasons for such crises. This is the reason why his grandfather, his “Dadé” will take things in hand. “Fifty-two weeks: that’s the time Mona has left to discover all the beauty of the world. That’s the time her grandfather, a learned and whimsical man, gave himself to initiate her , every Wednesday following school, to a work of art, before she loses, perhaps forever, the use of her eyes. Together, they will travel through the Louvre, Orsay and Beaubourg. Together, they will marvel, be moved, question themselves, captivated by the spectacle of a painting or a sculpture. Borrowing the views of Botticelli, Vermeer, Goya, Courbet, Claudel, Kahlo or Basquiat, Mona discovers the power of art and learns gift, doubt, melancholy or revolt, a precious treasure that her grandfather wishes to inscribe in her forever.” A magnificent novel that puts art at the center of life.
