A man enters the room, bestseller author's debut novel of love history, was appointed the newspaper Los Angeles Times "Book of the Year" in 2003. In 2010 New Yorker magazine included it on Nicole Krauss among the top 20 writers Americans under age 40. His novels are translated into over 35 languages, and in autumn this year, a man in the room has been translated into Romanian and published in Humanitas.
If memory we would suffer an accident and memories would burn into the fire or be dissolved into dust and light, the period of our lives we choose to save? What time we want to remain forever inscribed in the eyes of the soul? The main character of this novel seems that had the right to choose, was simply thrown into the vortex of his new crazy life, and the idea incarnand doubt: most times, people living with life doubts. Sometimes self-doubt, sometimes he questions the morality and sometimes have regrets. Then, is eternal doubt about how well we know each other: "'And, in fact, what it means to be loved?" Samson wondered, "if not to be understood? What else but to be touched deeply by the other? "[...] How could you wake up every morning and can be recognized by another, when yourself you hardly recognize?". This problem seems to preoccupy the writer Nicole Krauss in her address so that in many of his works, starting with a man in the room, closing and then even more in love and culminating during the past history novel, Great House.
Samson Greene, a young and admired professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, arrives at the hospital where the man is hospitalized to remove a brain tumor, discovers that his memories after the age of twelve are irretrievably lost. From the first moments of lucidity, Samson will start fighting with the past and especially now with the not found. For him, self-consciousness itself is "une intense jouissance", a continuous feeling renaissance, joy and conviction initiation singularity. He becomes, gradually, "a man who is not blinded by a lifetime of memories that can appreciate the power of one".
Somewhere far away, in the heart of the desert, a man recorded memories, creating a huge library of human memory and to not lose, learn how to write those memories in one place where it is ensured survival: in the minds of other people. A purely scientific project, but behind which Dr. Malcolm Ray believes he has found the key to human compassion. To enter into another person ... He believes also that he found a way to inspire empathy, a kind of cosmic belonging, a way for people to be immunized against alienation, as they are now vaccinated against diseases. The apparent solution - like image created by heat mirage - arising from the desert that had brought him in this state Samson was a man conscious of danger, knew that those skills could be used for negative purposes. But we could do anything if we let loose of fear? Human knowledge is evolving whether we like it or not, is pulled forward by their own strength. If you are not close to its tip, then it is another. And this man subordinated his passion, doing what he thought to do.
As the years passed we became more selective memory, as if he wants to confirm that we use about ten percent of the brain, the rest is disposed of with our unconscious genetic. Perhaps, however, where the stored memories is limited, so that some go "to sleep" as spies infiltrated into enemy territory. From time to time, any "Proustian madeleine" cause outbreaks, outbreaks of long forgotten caves of our minds. To think, therefore, twice before putting fresh white sheets over memories over old debts. Think again before you pull the curtains, before memories hide in a hidden pocket, and I could find broken over the years ...