Fuad Quotes in La tigre e la neve (2005)

Fuad: He was a real poet. He was young, fell in love with a woman and married her. A few years later, while he was fighting in some war, he heard his wife had contracted smallpox and had been disfigured. So Al-Giumeili said, "My eyes hurt." And then: "I've gone blind." When his wife died, 12 years later, he opened his eyes again.

Attilio de Giovanni: So as not to upset his wife, he pretended to be blind for 12 years?

Fuad: Every person is a chasm. It makes you dizzy to look down.