β Scribed by Agota Kristof
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Claus and Lucas are twins. Their new life begins when they are left with their grandmother, the βWitchβ, in a village in an occupied country. Itβs wartime. All their actions are based on the necessity to survive. They create an exercise regime to toughen up, and record the results in a notebook. Their angelic looks are deceiving. They are implacable, dangerously ethical; their code of life demands that they help a deserter, or blackmail a priest, or come to the aid of a prostitute, or assist in a suicide. What motivates them is a deeply embedded morality of absolute need.
The trilogyβ The Notebook (1986), The Proof (1988), and The Third Lie (1991)βfollows their stories from the Second World War, through the years of communism and into a fractured Europe. In what could be seen as an allegory of post-war Europe, Claus and Lucas, locked in a tortuous bond, become separated and are isolated in different countries. They yearn to be connected again, but...
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