Your Honor
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Your Honor
14.99 €
The novel "Your Honor" (1991) by the distinguished Catalan writer Jaume Cabré was written long before his famous "I Confess." But even then, the writer was preoccupied with themes of the powerful, judicial corruption, and absolute power, for which only the right of the strong exists.
It's the winter of 1799. It rains incessantly in Barcelona, the city seems paralyzed, and yet, social life is in full swing. The aristocrats seem preoccupied only with celebrating the arrival of the new, nineteenth century. The Te Deum is performed in the cathedral, and a series of social receptions unfold in the sumptuous halls... But the festive atmosphere is marred by the strange murder of a French singer. A young poet, accidentally "in the wrong place at the wrong time," is arrested. He is unequivocally found guilty, especially since documents have been discovered in his possession that could lead to the downfall of "your honor"—Don Rafel Massó, the President of the Supreme Court. This man, endowed with the power to execute or pardon, is known to have one weakness: he adores beautiful women. So which will prevail: justice or power, executioner or victim, one's "I didn't kill her!" or the other's "I didn't mean it"?
It's the winter of 1799. It rains incessantly in Barcelona, the city seems paralyzed, and yet, social life is in full swing. The aristocrats seem preoccupied only with celebrating the arrival of the new, nineteenth century. The Te Deum is performed in the cathedral, and a series of social receptions unfold in the sumptuous halls... But the festive atmosphere is marred by the strange murder of a French singer. A young poet, accidentally "in the wrong place at the wrong time," is arrested. He is unequivocally found guilty, especially since documents have been discovered in his possession that could lead to the downfall of "your honor"—Don Rafel Massó, the President of the Supreme Court. This man, endowed with the power to execute or pardon, is known to have one weakness: he adores beautiful women. So which will prevail: justice or power, executioner or victim, one's "I didn't kill her!" or the other's "I didn't mean it"?
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