This September, Funambulista, a printing house from Madrid (Spain), has published the novel “Los cuadernos de Nadine” (“Nadine's notebooks”), by Martí Colom, a member of the Community of Saint Paul and a regular contributor to this blog.
The novel (published with the quality and care typical of books by Funambulista) opens with the story of the last days of Jean Jaurès, the leader of the French socialists who vehemently opposed the outbreak of the First World War in July 1914. Jaurès, knowing that the conflict would be a catastrophe in which the workers and the poorest in society had nothing to gain, was convinced until the last moment that it was possible to avoid the war, and he wore himself out orchestrating a political and public campaign against the conflict. As it progresses, the story focuses on the complex and tortured life of Raoul Villain, the man who murdered Jaurès, and on the contradictions faced by Nadine Ledoux, the young woman who loves Villain and becomes the true protagonist of the story, forced to decide what to do when the world she lives in falls apart.
“Los cuadernos de Nadine” is a fast-paced novel that, in addition to telling the unlikely (but true) story of Raoul Villain, confronts the readers with their own attitude towards violence and failure. Is it possible, ultimately, to remake one's own life when the certainties in which we had always trusted fall apart?
https://funambulista.net/libros/los-cuadernos-de-nadine/
