Before I read Pavane pour une infante defunte, I listened to Pavane pour une infante defunte by Maurice Ravel who is my favorite composer. I was sometimes lost in meditation to listen this music. So I wondered this song's history. Who is she? Why Ravel makes this song? Then I searched Pavane pour une infante defunte. But a book was appeared to me. The book's writer name is Park min-gyu and cover is my preference. The cover's picture is Don Diego Rodriguez da Silva y Velasquez's Las Meninas. In this picture, there is many las meninas and Margarita princess who is the inspiration of the Pavane pour une infante defunte. This picture associate with Ravel's Pavane Pour une infante defunte. So I bought this book and read it to have curiosity.
The story was very interesting because of characters. One is a woman who has ugly face. Another is a man who love her. The other is a man who is connect between them and his name is John. Through its category is romance, she does not have beautiful appearance in contrast the majority of the book's main characters have beautiful appearance. For this reason, this book is very unusual to me. I always read books which appeared as the main characters who had beautiful appearance or became beautiful appearance. Unlike others book, looking from this point of view, this book is interesting to me.
The end of the story was sad for me. Finally a man who love her died for accident. But John who is spectator and writer in this story wrote this story. So he thought that he didn't die. Then he wrote happy ending about he and she in Switzerland. When I read this book one time, I amazed that the man who died for accident appeared suddenly. But next time I read this book, I understanded that this story is another story which is John's image. It's a pitiful situation that he couldn't meet her. But this happy ending is satisfied with me.
Hello Chae eun. i'm Chan mi. I like the writer of this book. In my opinion, Park Min-gyu(the author) is a genius. His idea is amazing. I recommend to you, other novels of Park Min-gyu. In particular, I recommend ping pong. I'll look forward to next post. Bye~:-)
답글삭제Hello Chae Eun. It's interesting in this book that the main character was not beautiful. As you said, most of the books you have read all have beautiful main characters, especially if they are women. I think that the culture is too obsessed with "beautiful". For example, so many girls get plastic surgery because they think they must be more beautiful. I think this type of thing is sad. :( People are beautiful from inside~
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