Reading [Novel; SP] Mademoiselle danse

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Are you okay? I hope you are feeling well and that you are doing well? Today, I'm taking you into a slightly more sporty world... That of dance. Hoping that my opinion will give you an idea, will titillate you a little and that, perhaps, you will get into it.

Barbara Prizzi, a former dancer at the Paris Opera, lives in Venice with Mattia with whom she is madly in love. She teaches ballet classes at the school that bears her name.

One day in January 2023, she is struck down by a faintness, and, as she comes to her senses, her whole soul screams at her to leave, to run away, so as not to be extinguished...
Barbara herself is surprised and baffled by this sudden acknowledgement of failure.

In a few days, she questions everything: her childhood at the Opera School, her brilliant career in the spotlight and even her marriage, her dream life with Mattia.
As the weeks and months go by, Barbara evolves in the watercolor setting of the Serenissima. And, going from surprise to surprise, she discovers another form of dance.

We accompany him and watch him tangle and unravel his life in the meanders of the Venetian alleys...

What if Barbara's dreams had ultimately been nothing more than illusions, projections of the desires of others?

What if there was another way to dance... to live one's life... To simply love?

Will Barbara succeed in freeing herself from the various gilded prisons in which she has locked herself up for so long? Will she find, through dance, a new breath, a harmony, and even another balance in her love life?

From the first lines of Mademoiselle Danse, I felt that something was going to resonate. The novel opens with Barbara Prizzi, a former star of the Paris Opera, now a teacher at her own school in Venice. A setting that is both prestigious and poetic, almost out of time, in which you glide gently, as if on a boat along the water. However, behind the apparent beauty, there is a flaw. A loss of balance, a malaise, a suspended moment where everything falters.

And it is in this shift that the novel finds its accuracy. It is not a spectacular fall, but a slow questioning. Who am I when I am no longer defined by what I do? What remains when we have forgotten ourselves in the name of a dream that is too perfect, of an image that is too smooth? Barbara does not struggle in a flamboyant drama, she searches for herself in a delicate silence, in everyday gestures that take on a new meaning.

What touched me the most was this gentle way of talking about reconstruction, without ever forcing emotions. The author has a light, almost airy pen. We move forward in small steps with Barbara, in a calm but never slow pace. There are no unnecessary embellishments, each word seems to be chosen for its weight, its echo. It is a novel that does not seek to impress, but to accompany. To be there.

So yes, this is not a reading where you run from one twist to the next. It is a reading that invites us to slow down, to listen, to feel. Some readers might be confused by this softness, this almost contemplative side, but for my part, that's precisely what makes it strong. We breathe, we sit down, we think. The book does not give ready-made answers, it offers an outstretched hand to think for oneself.

I came out of this reading with the impression of having taken a soft, comforting, but not empty break. A full break. The desire to re-evaluate certain things, to give meaning to the present moment. Mademoiselle Danse is not only about dance, but about the body, the link to oneself, the way we look at our life when we finally start to look at ourselves with honesty.

It's a novel that I recommend to people who like sensitive, human stories, without pretense. To those who want to find themselves through another, to let themselves be lulled by an inner voice that seeks to be reborn. There is something deeply soothing in this story, like muted music that does not leave the soul right away.

And you, have you ever had that suspended moment, where everything needs to be reevaluated? Maybe this novel could accompany you in this step aside.