Лестницы Шамбора

Izvestnyĭ frant͡suzskiĭ pisatelʹ, laureat Gonkurovskoĭ premii Paskalʹ Kinʹi͡ar, zamechatelʹnyĭ stilist, issleduet v romane tonchaĭshie ni͡uansy chelovecheskikh otnosheniĭ - li͡ubvi i druzheskoĭ privi͡azannosti, zavisti i vrazhdy.Metaforoĭ takikh otnosheniĭ avtor izbral skonstruirovannye Leonardo da Vinchi dli͡a zamka Shambor, chto stoit v doline Luary, spiralevidnye lestnit͡sy, obvivai͡ushchie pustoe prostranstvo v t͡sentre glavnoĭ bashni zamka. Khitroumnoe sooruzhenie pozvoli͡alo stoi͡atʹ lit͡som k lit͡su s chelovekom na drugoĭ lestnit͡se, no ne skhoditʹsi͡a s nim.Kak ėto poluchaetsi͡a, dumaet geroĭ romana, chto ty vsegda podnimaeshʹsi͡a po lestnit͡se odin? I spuskaeshʹsi͡a tozhe vsegda odin. I vsegda, vsegda raskhodishʹsi͡a s temi, kogo vidishʹ naprotiv, sovsem blizko…

The famous French writer, winner of the Goncourt prize Pascal Kinyar, a wonderful stylist, explores in the novel the most subtle nuances of human relations - love and friendship, envy and hostility.As a metaphor for such relations, the author chose the spiral staircases designed by Leonardo da Vinci for the Chambord castle, which stands in the Loire valley, winding around an empty space in the center of the main tower of the castle. The contraption made it possible to stand face-to-face with a person on another staircase, but not to converge with them.How is it, the hero of the novel thinks, that you always go up the stairs alone? And you always go down alone, too. And always, always at odds with those you see opposite, very close…