“Odile” Keno in brief summary
The protagonist Roland Rami returns to civilian life after several months of service in Morocco, where he took part in hostilities. In Paris, with the mediation of one of his army comrades, Rami becomes a member of a small group of young people who meet in the Montmartre region, who practice the art of living without fatiguing themselves. Like the other members of this group, Rami does not work for eight hours a day at any enterprise and can manage his time on his own. The next six months, not particularly, really, to this endeavor, Rami is spinning in this society of free swindlers.
Roland Rami is an amateur mathematician, therefore he spends several hours every day for infinite calculations that do not bring him a single sous. In addition, he sometimes writes articles for scientific journals. Once upon a time he had a break with his family, and his only uncle, with whom Rami still had a relationship, is his uncle. He for a long time served in the colony, has a fair amount of
After six months of his stay in Paris, Roland Rami is drawing closer to a group of Communists who, with great zeal, are trying to persuade him to join the party and actively support the cause of the revolution. The head of the group is a certain Aglares; his life, according to the stories of the poet Saxel, familiar to Rami, is thoroughly permeated with mysteries and unusual incidents. Aglares wears long hair, a broad-brimmed hat and a pince-nez, which is attached to his right ear with a thick red cord. In general, he looks like an antediluvian photographer, and only the red tie on his neck indicates his modernist habits. Aglares gathered around him a certain number of students and, having secured their support, leads the revolutionary struggle as a whole to the idea of prevailing in the world of some kind of “irrational”, “unconscious”
Through the same group of “scams” Rami gets acquainted with Odile, who soon begins to experience something of a kind of friendly affection.
At the request of Odile Rami, he writes an article about the objectivity of mathematics. The article is extremely favorably received in Aglares’s environment. Aglares is delighted that he finally met a man who, in his opinion, discovered the infripsychic nature of mathematics. From now on he is even more actively trying to draw Rami into revolutionary activity.
After a while, Rami and Saxel attend the revolutionary occult sect of Mr. Muyard, to which one of Rama’s acquaintances, a certain F., invites them, and where F.’s sister Eliza, a psychic girl, evokes the spirit of Lenin, who by this time was deceased, she gives posthumous instructions to all adherents of her revolutionary theory. Saxel is subjugated by the delights of Eliza and assiduously tries to persuade the Aglares group to join the Muyard sect. Saxel’s enthusiasm, however, finds no support.
On the same evening, when the question of joining the sect is discussed in detail at a group meeting, Oscar, the leader of the Montmartre company, kills Tesson, the lover of Odili, who is his brother. The perpetrator of the crime is arrested on the same day, and along with him several other friends of his acquaintance with Rolan get to the police. Rami himself manages to avoid arrest only thanks to a timely warning from a young well-wisher. For the next few days, Rami unsuccessfully searches for Odile. His excitement is great, because in his number it does not appear. Two days after the crime, two policemen come to Rami’s home and unceremoniously take with him all his papers, most of which are mathematical calculations and excerpts from high-scientific publications.
With the help of Aglares and their common acquaintance, Rami strives to return all his records to him, as well as to remove any suspicions from himself and Odile. Odile, deprived after the death of Tesson’s livelihood and not self-confident enough to go to work, leaves for the village to his parents. Rami, deprived of her society, falls into depression, but soon finds a way how to return Odile to Paris: he decides to bring her as his wife, inviting her to formalize a fictitious marriage. Becoming her husband for real he does not want, because I’m sure that he does not feel love. Roland convinces his uncle in connection with his marriage to double his content, goes for Odile and, offering her her name and modest income in exchange for simple friendly feelings, brings her back, thereby saving them from the hibernation and hopelessness of existence. Having signed, young people continue to live separately and meet only a few times a week, and Rami, unconsciously not believing in her right to happiness, gradually further and further pushes Odile away from herself.
During the absence of Rami in Paris in the Aglares group, a coup is taking place: Saxel is turned out of it, and on the leaf defaming the poet, along with other signatures is the signature of Rami, who in fact sees this paper for the first time. In addition, for the expansion of the group’s influence among the radical Parisians, people are admitted into its ranks unscrupulous, knowingly capable of baseness and betrayal. Such an unexpected turn of events contributes to the fact that for Roland Rami ends a certain period of political education, and he gradually moves further away from the Communists. Rally gets rid of the idea of himself as a mathematician, or rather, as a computer that is constantly losing count, and tries to “build” a new, more human refuge from the wreckage of his vanity, in which there would be a place and a feeling such as love for a woman. Odile first confesses to Rami in love. Rami, hoping to think about her future life and find out herself, travels to Greece with her friends for several weeks. There he finds the strength to abandon the constantly tempted desire to suffer and, peering into his soul, understand that he loves Odile. Arriving in Paris, he still manages to return the location of Odile, no longer fearing to be just a “normal” person, and begins to treat this state as a springboard from which he can jump into the future. There he finds the strength to abandon the constantly tempted desire to suffer and, peering into his soul, understand that he loves Odile. Arriving in Paris, he still manages to return the location of Odile, no longer fearing to be just a “normal” person, and begins to treat this state as a springboard from which he can jump into the future. There he finds the strength to abandon the constantly tempted desire to suffer and, peering into his soul, understand that he loves Odile. Arriving in Paris, he still manages to return the location of Odile, no longer fearing to be just a “normal” person, and begins to treat this state as a springboard from which he can jump into the future.
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