The monster is naked. About the book “The Monster of Saint Helena” by Albert Sanchez Piñola

With the fresh “The Monster of Holy Helena” by Albert Sanchez Piñola, I have a akin problem as with the movie “Napoleon” by Ridley Scott: the feeling that it could be something truly good if the authors could defy the most primitive stereotypes. That in their visions, though critical of the French Emperor, there was a grain of greatness that was not given to rise.