The Long awaited Review, The French Encounter
Michael DA Samuel native of Thirunelveli, Tamil Nadu born in 1951 and served in organizations and in the end discovered that teaching the next generation is the most enriching jobs in the world.
The French Encounter by Cecile Rischmann is a conversational masterpiece that captures the involvement of the reader and with the imagination of western sensibility paints the many colours of romantic love with an Indian mind. The dialogue is at many levels and strips the layers of hypocrisy surrounding human existence. Middle class morality confronts luxury and wealth. Cultural diversity is unified by the powerful narrative which glides smoothly in spite of the love and war of the characters who dismantle the barriers of social class which almost derail the ‘train’ of love, lust and desires. The dreams of Katrina symbolize a feminine craving for security and COMFORT. This book must be translated into Tamil, French, German and Italian to reach out to incurable romantics around the world! A multi-lingual movie can have a tremendous impact.
Cecile Rischmann dives into the ocean of passionate love while exposing corporate innuendoes and individual jealousies.
When can I read your next book? Who will do the translations? The script and screenplay adaptation for the movie version requires the engagement of eminent Producer, Director, and Cinematographer with global recognition.
When Nanne Coda a Telugu poet was re-discovered at the end of the 19th century he had written:
“An arrow shot by an archer
Or a poem made by a poet
Should cut through your heart
Jolting the head.
If it doesn’t, it’s no arrow
It’s no poem.”
Finally Dear Cecile when you translate your books remember the words of ‘The Absent Traveller’ by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra “Great translations… shoot to kill, and having obliterated the original, transmigrate its soul into another language.”
You did mention at Taj Coromendal on 18 January that you will participate in Hindu Literature Festival 2017. This time Ananth Padmanbhan CEO of Harper Collins India Photographer, dog lover and bibliophile attendee and spoke. I hope you can be on the list of Panellists for 2017. Good luck and hope to see you in the near future. Keep in touch and keep writing since you have the natural ability to tell several stories at the same time. It’s a rare quality!!
The French Encounter by Cecile Rischmann is a conversational masterpiece that captures the involvement of the reader and with the imagination of western sensibility paints the many colours of romantic love with an Indian mind. The dialogue is at many levels and strips the layers of hypocrisy surrounding human existence. Middle class morality confronts luxury and wealth. Cultural diversity is unified by the powerful narrative which glides smoothly in spite of the love and war of the characters who dismantle the barriers of social class which almost derail the ‘train’ of love, lust and desires. The dreams of Katrina symbolize a feminine craving for security and COMFORT. This book must be translated into Tamil, French, German and Italian to reach out to incurable romantics around the world! A multi-lingual movie can have a tremendous impact.
Cecile Rischmann dives into the ocean of passionate love while exposing corporate innuendoes and individual jealousies.
When can I read your next book? Who will do the translations? The script and screenplay adaptation for the movie version requires the engagement of eminent Producer, Director, and Cinematographer with global recognition.
When Nanne Coda a Telugu poet was re-discovered at the end of the 19th century he had written:
“An arrow shot by an archer
Or a poem made by a poet
Should cut through your heart
Jolting the head.
If it doesn’t, it’s no arrow
It’s no poem.”
Finally Dear Cecile when you translate your books remember the words of ‘The Absent Traveller’ by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra “Great translations… shoot to kill, and having obliterated the original, transmigrate its soul into another language.”
You did mention at Taj Coromendal on 18 January that you will participate in Hindu Literature Festival 2017. This time Ananth Padmanbhan CEO of Harper Collins India Photographer, dog lover and bibliophile attendee and spoke. I hope you can be on the list of Panellists for 2017. Good luck and hope to see you in the near future. Keep in touch and keep writing since you have the natural ability to tell several stories at the same time. It’s a rare quality!!
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