In
The Force of the Discreet
(2013), sold over 4 million copies, Susan Cain gave credit to sensitive personalities in a society that values extroverted characters.
Just as against the tide, she publishes today
Le Bonheur d'être triste
, paved in the pond of a world governed by what she calls the "tyranny of positivity".
Read alsoAugmented emotion, the unsuspected strength of hypersensitive people
Madame Figaro.–
You started this book to understand your attraction to sad music.
Did you find the answer?
Susan Cain.-
Certainly.
I believe we are all looking for a perfect world.
We feel like we came from it, we are nostalgic about it.
Religion participates in this desire, materialized by the garden of EDEN, Zion or Mecca.
Children's culture is no exception.
Dorothy, in
The Wizard of Oz,
must take a road strewn with pitfalls to return home.
Sad music contributes to this, it expresses our melancholy.
Transcended by music, our pain becomes beauty...
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