The action takes place in Venice in the eighteenth century. Lavish and cruel, this past time propels us into a theatrical setting. The old painter Niccolo Guardi dies. His brother, Francesco Guardi, landscaping, too old, and his son, priest, awake. Later, the son recalls his father's promise to tell the story of "Being, the Double. "Francesco contemplates Venice city amphibian, "Like a miracle every day. . Remembering the request of his son, he wondered about "this unusual episode Venetian. "The morning sun warming, he falls asleep against a pillar and dreams ...
The parable fits during the sixty-first year of the eighteenth century. A gondola "to the roof half-barrel" enters the Teatro San Benedetto "by a lock which closed immediately behind. "Every night for two months, the arena again. Superstitious, the Venetian people hear voices "who repeated melodic and sublime operatic arias, motets and cantatas. " We will know by a spy devoted to the cause of the inquisitor red, Alessandro Di San Paoli, these voices belong to the twins unmatched Giovanni and Paolo. Both are actually Siamese twins, bound by the sacrum and woe to those who would know their identity. Whispers that their mother is a French aristocrat, died in childbirth. The opening night performance, the magic of their voices and their bodies deformed lead to a riot. Their abnormality class twins among the monsters, but the sublime range of their voice dazzles and anesthesia until the people drama. It will be grafted onto the ardent love with a young Giovanni soprano soloist, Maddalena, protected by Alessandro Di San Paoli, who had discovered ten years at the Hospice for terminally ill, whose primary mission was to treat syphilis, "which turned many poor orphaned by outstanding musicians. "At a final concert, they will be devoured by an irrepressible passion. In great secrecy, they marry, will separate until, mysteriously disappears Maddalena. Giovanni and Paolo, condemned for murder, will be tortured in the public square. As it was de rigueur in the dark ages, a miracle occurs that will divert the people of the execution of two men : The ship of the envoy of King Louis XV of France anchored the morning of their killing. "He was horrified by the spectacle [s] the place and Zanipolo ribbed. However, he went to pay his respects to the Doge [...] "The talks will commit later, the crowd was disinterested monster and sinful Maddalena, suddenly reappeared, to admire the sea and the Bellerophon," ship forefront "of where the count down René-Antoine Royer of the polm Hargençon," followed by his suite. "
In fact, the story would be classic if it came down to the love between Giovanni and Maddalena. Unable to relate the extreme beauty of the scenes depicting Venice, superbly portrayed by author Marc Ory, we look at the complexity of boorish people who governed the city. Between the ferocity of the Church and State, it was not good to be born different. Guided by illiteracy and fear of hell, the people are resigned to the inhuman demands of the Inquisition. Is not two rival families who, to gratify their ambition, will judge the fate of the twins? Is not that the famous surgeon Carlotti, Padua, who, brandishing his wig and his finger, they were crying banish pygopages, term which are designated by the Siamese welded lumbar vertebrae. The crowd there is not hysterical. "She tore his mask and wolves were trampled. To allay this physical phenomenon, a fishmonger, a devotee of the church di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, the nicknamed: Zanipolo contraction of their first names. Banished by men, Giovanni and Paolo will have little to fear from their barbarous ignorance, they are authenticated descendants of a French aristocrat mother.
Roman led masterfully by Marc Ory. In writing that is both dynamic and gentle, he masterfully describes the manners of the eighteenth century outrageous grouped around Venice, besieged by the inquisitors. Cleverly, overflowing with humor, the author narrates the life that formed the customary cosmopolitan society of a city drawn by excess. Many short chapters we delight, we read them without tiring. The conversation exchanged between an alchemist and an old English instructing the reader on the various pigments used by the painters of old, welcomed us. Giovanni Maddalena and receiving, each in turn, a course of sexual anatomy, Paolo thundering an erotic poem before his execution, all of us lush sensuality tickles! Marc Ory concluded this historical tale, freely structured on a quirky note that seems to affirm that the destiny of men never accomplished alone. We need our duality, our inconsistencies to justify our actions and our actions, decide between good and evil that hangs over us, like two brothers fighting enemies, too unable to separate.
Zanipolo, Marc Ory
editions Triptych, Montreal, 2010, 134 pages
Dominique Blondeau - dominblondeau@yahoo.fr 
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