Mona Lisa: Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre, Paris

Name: Mona Lisa: Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre, Paris
Author: Imad Darouich

الموناليزا: ليوناردو دافنشي، اللوفر، باريس

A prose poem before Leonardo's Mona Lisa in the Louvre. In long litanies on her smile, her eyes, her silence and the time that collapses between her lips, the speaker loses his name, hears Leonardo explain that he wanted a face that never ages, and finds that she is a mirror in which the viewer is the mystery.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Literature & Art

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Before the small face and mysterious smile of the Mona Lisa, the narrator watches Leonardo at work, his hands trembling with knowledge, placing imaginary mountains, rivers that never existed and bridges to the unknown behind her. She is a city, a temple and a book open to infinity, and Leonardo whispers that he wanted a face that never ages, a smile that mocks death and an equation uniting science and imagination. In the Louvre the crowds circle her as lovers circle their beloved while she stays silent, and the narrator realizes she is a mirror in which the viewer discovers that he himself is the mystery. The poem then becomes a long chant of repeated openings on her smile, her eyes, every glance, her face and her silences, with time collapsing between her lips and love writing its scriptures on her eyelids. It ends with the narrator before her as a child lost in a temple of light, a river returning to its source and a traveler without a map.

She is a book open to infinity.

“I wanted a face that never ages.”

Before her, I am a child lost in a temple of light.

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