Rulers rule and murder for the sake of ruling. History comes and goes. The British author Hilary Mantel has combined the passage of time in her novels into fascinating picture arcs. She has now passed away at the age of 70.
History is not a catalog of numbers and dates, it arises from psychological moments: Hilary Mantel wrote in images, colors and sounds.
The architectures of power could not have been described better. In «Reflection and Light», the last novel in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy, the darkling of the Enlightenment always carries a knife to his chest. Right above the heart. This hero will give his life for power, but before that he will defend it with everything he has.