What I have been reading

I've just finished reading "Lovesong' by Alex Miller.

It's a book about love, about loneliness, about human fragility, about a type of love transcends normal ordinary life.When John and Sabiha get married, they are actually longing for very different things; for John is to take his exotic north African wife to return to his home town Melbourne. But for Sabiha is to have a baby girl whom she has dreamed since her childhood. There is no equal love that on the same level in bonding them. Therefore loneliness is eternal and it leads tragedy inevitably.

The language of this book is very lyric and beautiful. But the old writer Ken, is not necessary to be there, I believe. The main storyline could be more lucid and seamless. Ken and his story with his daughter doesn't enhance the lovesong.

The other book is a collection of essays by Milan Kundera "Encounter'. The author talks about literature, classic writers, music. I like the first essay on Francis Bacon. Kundera interprets Bacon's painting, often 'everything in painting that is not the painter's own discovery, his fresh contribution ,his originality. ' It is for the others to discovery what behind those horrifying faces.
'The face,' Kundera says,
'the face that harbors "that treasure, that nugget of gold, that hidden diamond" that is the infinitely fragile self shivering in a body;
'the face I gaze upon to seek in it a reason for living the "senseless accident" that is life.'

So what happens in John and Sabiha's life, a senseless accident that changes their lives forever. Surely there are something more behind John and Sobiha's story and for readers to unveil, just like Bacon's paintings.