The World Is Made of Glass -

Morris West

William Morrow & Company, Inc.

1983

324 páginas

10h 48m

ISBN-10: 0688020313

This novel is about one man and three women in a conflict that explores the fine line between love and hate, good and evil, fantasy and reality. The narrative is founded on fact: a case history recorded in the autobiography of Carl Gustav Jung. His account is brief and curiously cryptic: "A lady came to my office. She refused to give her name ... what she had to communicate to me was a confession." Morris Wst's version of the encounter is a fascinating blend of truth and dramatic speculation. The events cover the Golden time of the Belle Époque, rught up to the twilight year 1913, before the lights went out over Europe and the First World War began. This was a year of crisis for Jung. He was estranged from his old friend and master, Freud. His wife was pregnant with their fifth child. He had begun a love affair with his onetime pupil Toni Wolff, and, to cap it all, he was already suffering from a maniac-depressive illness that was to last for four years. Jung and the unnamed woman who came seeking his help are two destinies on a collision course. Mature, beautiful, depraved, the woman herself is a classic creation whose memory will haunt the reader long after the last page is turned. The World Is Made of Glass may well be judged Moris West's masterwork's.

Resenhas (11)

5 (Perfeito)

Triste realidade

Baseado em fatos reais. A história é uma reflexão de uma mulher com a mente fragmentada já que seu próprio pai pratica incesto com ela, por vingança da mulher o ter deixado.
Então um amigo a indica com um psiquiatra, mas este também não consegue ajudá-la.
Ela, então, volta para o amigo. Este consegue evitar que ela se mate, mas ela não consegue se livrar da culpa.
Quando eles tentam ajudar mulheres do submundo, para ela manter a mente ocupada, um cafetão a assassina por estar incomodando seu "trabalho".

História triste demais. Me emocionei muito.
Às vezes algumas pessoas tentam e tentam, e simplesmente não conseguem.
O livro termina com o amigo desconsolado por ter perdido a melhor amiga, por nada...