In his image

Author's name: Jérôme Ferrari Publisher: Maskelyani Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2022 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: This novel is not a mechanical investigation, hidden behind storytelling, about the art of photography and its relation to the wars humanity has known, or about human nature and its relation to religion, or even about the phobia of death and its relation to fates manipulated only by the latent brutality within humans. Instead, it is a conscious questioning, even if it seems immersed in pain, of the fragility that characterizes human nature, driving it to document wars and massacres so that it is not said that it averted its gaze when death arrived. The image places us before the most painful questions: "time and death and the specific details of human nature oscillating between fragility and brutality." Quotes from the novel "On His Image" by Jérôme Ferrari: People do not want to see those atrocities, and if they do, they prefer to forget them. This does not mean they are cruel or selfish or indifferent. Not only that, at least, but it would be impossible for them to watch those things while realizing they cannot change anything. She never cared to know whether she belonged to the family of those who left their marks on glossy photo paper or not, but the secret of her attraction to it lies precisely in the mark itself, meaning in the way the reflected light from the bodies is captured — those that have now aged or turned to dust. One must not run away from the scene of death, nor seek to beautify it. She found herself forced to dedicate her life to one of two types: photography is her profession, and it is a profession she mastered nothing else in. That is why she chose to continue taking photos that will inevitably disappear, and she accepted this, not as someone bearing the consequences of a choice, but as someone submissive to an unavoidable reality that cannot be discussed.