2024-02-24 17:38:04
Published on February 24, 2024 at 6:38 p.m. / Modified on February 24, 2024 at 7:10 p.m.
His name is Sandor, like Sandor Marai, the great Hungarian writer. He is the narrator’s next door neighbor, and the main character of this novel. He’s the “man who didn’t want to die.” The narrator meets him. They exchange a few words, bond, while maintaining a distance. He is in his sixties, travels all the time for work. Solitary and of few words, he describes himself socially as “indifferent”. He is pragmatic, and it is through small gestures that he will show his affection.
Sandor’s companion only appears once, at the beginning of the novel, when she leaves their home dressed in a gabardine (despite the heat of July), and “with a suitcase barely enough to carry three days of absence. The couple’s final breakup seems like an escapade.
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