strolling around town or taking the subway, it was noted the mixed couples. Africans, Asians, Europeans, North Americans, we question Because of the insane wars. Din of bombs, screams of pain, city decapitated, the televised images of hatred responsible belie the tenderness of the faces, the gentle eyes who swear eternity. The political interests of a handful of men have never prevail love exchanged between these women and men. Deliberate reflection brings us to the novel by Steven Galloway, The soldier glass.
Destiny of a man who walked on the earth is not only a considerable effort but also a permanent tear. Although it is on a wire, free of any physical weight. The weight of the earth, pieces of clay stuck to his feet. Since his terrible childhood in Transylvania, during the 1920s, have transpired fears, anxieties born of exile, its human condition always on the alert, the death of his parents in the arson their house, his wanderings from one continent to another. Thus begins the story of Salvo Ursari, gypsy battered by war and discrimination. After suffering a helping hand and sometimes brutal stretches, we seized the collar, leaving us breathless. What will happen to Salvo night he performs feats on a chair in a tavern notorious Budapest. Before reaching these extremes, Salvo had been collected for two years with an aunt Roma, banished by her parents after her marriage to a "Gadjo her uncle Laszlo. Two years that will arise Salvo much discussion about human relationships, openly hating his uncle. Term sustainable interrupted by an incident caused by irreparable distraction Dream Salvo. His aunt will kick. Fascinating story of the soldier of glass, interspersed with touching tales Roma. Small object that shattered his life continues, his feet constantly hurt by shards symbolic. The Helping Hand, ruthless, Salvo to learn to balance on a tightrope. Talented young man, we think of the albatross poetized by Charles Baudelaire. Clumsy on his feet rooted to the land, its majestic stature appears to spread its wings. From this revelation, the existence of Salvo will never be the same. Beings he believed found dead, his sister and his brother, later, Anna, his wife will join him on the ropes. Still later, his two daughters, one adopted child. We feel that the love is doing this nomadic family intensifies, held on the wire. Below, the troubles continue to defy the upper, the harmony of gestures exist, the security of immobility. The quintessential existential where no word is exchanged not harmful, unlike the heavy earthly laws where everyone grows up, lives with his dilemmas.
Years pass. Ursari Salvo and his fabulous run their numbers at the famous Circus Fisher-Fielding. Until one day the dream winged, symbolized by a perilous exercise developed by Salvo, tragically collapse. Private glass looming. Death, dispersal of the family. Bankrupt circus after a mysterious fire has ravaged the. Fascination and horror of the flames by Salvo and feared her younger sister Etel. Constant distrust, unspoken pain that child ever tumbling, like a mighty stream. Travel breaks and Central Europe to North America. Anna's happiness at his farm in British Columbia. A silent complicity, an overwhelming loneliness and Anna Salvo unite to end, or the fall of the tightrope amazing four hundred meters above the ground.
Roman magistrate, universal, meaning foolishly that life hangs by a thread, that hackneyed ploy an implacable fate. What would have become far Salvo Ursari circus? His aspiration to increase its attraction to the fall, his doubts face unfathomable certainty they have found an effective remedy, flanging incipient madness? His insights will be sickly they bowed to be whole, unpolished, but fragile as glass? Salvo does not he say that we are all soldiers of glass. A chip destabilizes us, break our wings, we can only dream of heaven and earth amalgamated, they have enabled us to fulfill our every desire. The story of this extraordinary man is told tenderly, passionately by Steven Galloway. The details of treating psychological experiences affect us all immensely. Similar to the delicate balance keeping feet on the wire, the filaments Events that govern us will wear at an age when promises Anna Salvo, even though he knows he lies, soon to retire. This gross lie, he will pay for his life, aroused by a violent gust of wind unexpectedly between "two of the tallest towers in the world. "We
was seduced by the serenity descriptive Steven Galloway has chosen to tell a story where Ursari Salvo and his family are faced with intransigence human, to seditious conspiracy, an innate intolerance towards his people. A generous tenderness Salvo lives, he is unable to desert the tightrope, to contemplate the world at ground level, where spectators, dumbfounded, holding their breath in fear or hope to see him fall. Story of a man and his fellows, showing the reader the almost forgotten world of the circus. With this masterful extraordinary destiny, no longer look with detachment wire artists, one wonders if the ghost of Salvo Ursari standing, wrapped around the pole, do not float between two numbers prestigious helping hand too, as the butterfly, angel of death that haunted him too often ...
It mentions the translation of sensitive writer Dominique Fortier.
Private glass Steven Galloway
translated from English (Canada) by Dominique Fortier
Alto Publishing, 2010, Québec, 415 pages
Dominique Blondeau - dominblondeau@yahoo.fr 
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