Revenge of forgiveness

Do you like stories? Then what do you think of four different tales, seemingly separate on the surface but connected by one thread (forgiveness)! And governed by one obsession: diving into the human soul. An elderly lady, an ideal grandmother, compassionate and eager to help others, but accused of murder! A wealthy womanizer exploits the innocence of a loving woman and takes her child from her. So what lesson can human nature learn from such a tragedy? A heartless man regains his humanity thanks to a little girl, with whom he was drowning in reading The Little Prince, before one day realizing that he was the one behind the crash of his favorite writer’s plane. A woman regularly visits her daughter’s murderer, who was tried for the murders of fifteen girls. She doesn’t just visit him but tames his brutality and tries to bring him out of his isolation. Why does she do all that? This is the human test that Eric Emmanuel Schmitt offers to his readers, the test of forgiveness in the face of revenge. Isn’t forgiveness ultimately, in its primal form, revenge?