Kaleidoscope in "K" — A.J. Cronin

In "Kaleidoscope" Cronin offers us the cross-section of a day in a clinic, a kaleidoscope of different destinies that chance has temporarily and casually approached. Two stories vibrate as dominant motifs on this backdrop: the first, the story of the head nurse Fany, rigid in the fulfillment of her duty, closed in the starched armor of her uniform, but in love with a young doctor who lends his work in the sanatorium. The second has as its protagonists an elderly primary and his young assistant who are next to each other during a very delicate operation in which the youth and the ambition of the young person will prevail. One of Cronin's most famous novel, "Kaleidoscope" has inspired more than a theatrical and television reduction for the ability to tell people by sounding out the most intimate movements of the soul: love, pain, ambition, tension towards the achievement of their goals.