Mark Helprin is a successful novelist from New York. He went to Harvard, served in the Navy and joined the Air Force. All those adventures probably gave him a lot of experiences which he used to write a certain novel. The book "Memoir from Antproof Case" is a powerful manuscript about a nameless man that writes a memoir for his son, Funio, about his life and all the struggles he went through. It is written in such an honest way that you actually believe that it is an autobiography, even though it is not. Despite the tragedy that the protagonist encounters, he experiences many moments of the highest exultation, like when he's in love, when he encounters angels and when he's with his son.

Firstly, the narrator is deeply in love numerous times, he can't live without being in love. He felt affection as a child for Miss...