By granting Paris its prize this week at Watch over her, by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, at L’Iconoclaste, the Goncourt jury crowned a classic novelistic work, but carried by a powerful breath. Because this cosmic love story, in the heart of Mussolini’s Italy, is a song of freedom for the art of sculpture, for women hampered under the weight of machismo, for difference, in a baroque style which juggles between dream and realism. In this fresco shaped by Italian history, a genius artist suffering from dwarfism and a feverish and gifted aristocrat escape from themselves to find each other.
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