Oscar and The Lady in Pink or Oscar et La Dame Rose by Eric – Emmanuel Schmitt is ranked 13714th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, as for my conclusion, I am not sure yet, maybe I will know by the end of this note

 

Oscar and The Lady in Pink or Oscar et La Dame Rose by Eric – Emmanuel Schmitt is ranked 13714th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, as for my conclusion, I am not sure yet, maybe I will know by the end of this note

 

 

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8 out of 10

 

Fyodor Dostoevsky https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor.html came to mind, because he has a segment about that child, who is caught on the estate of a boyar, ‘noble’ man who tortures the boy, at least this is how I remember it, and then we have the problem of pain, and God

 

Why would God, who is supposed to be omniscient and all powerful, allow such pain to be inflicted on the innocent, the children in particular – this is what happens in Oscar and The Lady in Pink, the boy is dying of leukemia – and I remember being flabbergasted by Dostoevsky, as I stared reading his magnum opera in…

The kitchen of our two-room apartment, back in the Ceausescu days – I need to stop this, or else I will mention the candles and more - https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/surprised-by-joy-shape-of-my-early-life.html CS Lewis has some answers to The Problem of Pain, and one of it is quintessential: Free Will

 

Somehow, it was sort of embarrassing to read- in fact listen to the audiobook – Oscar et La Dame Rose: it is the pain, the deadly disease that ‘God allowed’ to affect, and then kill, this boy, and a multitude of others, that is so awful, that I actually do not want to read it, I kept my distance, now that I write this, I avoided the encore

I mean, it made some sense to listen to at least some parts of it, I do that with other features, but it is not pleasant - https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-short-history-of-myth-by-karen.html Karen Armstrong is another expert, some say the best, on religion and I have to get back to her, when there are religious issues in discussion

 

She refers to prominent theologians, who affirmed that God…does not exist, we can say that, meaning that he is not extant in a sense we could comprehend, and one of the arguments in favor of the existence of God (now that I just he does not, not in a way I could grasp) that I like is that He is not the old man with a beard

Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/memoirs-by-kingsley-amis-author-of-take.html was an atheist, when asked, he said ‘it is not that I don’t believe, I hate him’ words to that effect, but he also has some funny (he is the most amusing writer I know, my number one favorite) analysis –

 

‘The way He is described, he looks like the chairman of some company, the old man upstairs, who knows all that is going on in the corporation’, again, something like that, it is not a quote…Oscar dies in the end, I don’t think a spoiler alert was necessary, since the diagnosis is clear early one – and this is a rather short narrative

 

Here is the link to something that may amuse you, maybe you even have suggestions

 

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

 

 

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