We will not serve coffee to Spinoza

Author's name: Aliche Capalidar Publisher: Al-Karma for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2022 Literary genre: Novel Brief about the book: The events of the novel revolve around a young woman who is offered by the employment office as a housekeeper and reader for an old philosophy professor who has lost his sight. Maria Victoria accepts this without a second thought while struggling with the decline of her marriage, and it seems that everything around her indicates that she has reached the end of her marital life. The professor welcomes her into his house full of wind and light, and it only takes a little time for a real relationship to develop between them, sometimes humorous, sometimes tender and conspiratorial. Maria Victoria cooks for the philosophy professor and reads him excerpts from the works of Pascal, Epictetus, Spinoza, Saint Augustine, Epicurus. The professor always knows how to find the truths of great thinkers in small matters that can even help with household management. Maria Victoria discovers that philosophy can be useful in daily life, even in the simplest things that do not require deep thinking. For young Maria Victoria, every reading in a book becomes a tool to focus on things that seemed confusing to her until then, and to gather parts of the existence she spent immersed in others. Since that time, Maria Victoria's life changed after she entered the house of the philosophy professor.