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Le Paris, Buchet / Chastel, 391 pages. This book can be seen as the sequel to Je voulais être une femme, published the previous year. In any case, the literary process employed here is similar. In this opus, our heroine immerses herself in the resistance to the Algerian war, and the epic is picaresque: Mamerloy, one…
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Le Paris, Buchet-Chastel, 278 pages. “A writer (for want of a better word) with particular tastes in love, Nathan chooses to transpose himself into a female character to talk about his obsessions. ……… This is a novel with a double bottom, a game of mirrors in which a person moves relentlessly from life to dream, and…
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Le Paris, Les Editions du Sud, 345 pages This biographical novel begins with a 3-page introduction, Le 19ème siècle et le triomphe de la bourgeoisie, which ends as follows: “Certainly, from 1830 to the first decades of our 20th century, this was the golden age of the bourgeoisie, with that unpleasant nightmare of the Commune, a…
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Le Paris, Éditions du Sud, Albin Michel, 335 pages “Just as Jacobin and Napoleonic expansion had tended to liberate peoples before giving them a new discipline, the School of Five broke the chains with which Italian and Classical tyranny had burdened the realm of music; in this sense Balakirev and his satellites, Borodin, Moussorgsky, César Cui,…
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Le Éditions Renacimiento, 283 pages Spanish translation of Je m’appelle Kristine by Leonor T. de Paiz. The Memoirs of Hadrian , Marguerite Yourcenar’s monumental work published 7 years earlier, can only come to mind when reading Françoise’s novel. And it is not the transparent clues that she left that will invalidate this observation. One could think…
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Le Paris, Le Terrain Vague, 326 pages. Dedicated to Christiane Rochefort, whose “Repos du guerrier” was burned in a Catholic South American state. Book’s main subjects : Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740-1814) ; Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, (1836-1895) ; L’Arétin (1492-1556) ; Nicolas-Edme Rétif de La Bretonne (1734-1806). Many of the great figures of recent centuries…
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Le Paris, Buchet / Chastel, 377 pages. ” … Et c’est ainsi que je vais dans la vie, avançant par à-coups, grondant et crachant le feu ; tantôt fuyant un hôtel et un salaud, tantôt écoutant une clarinette, tantôt épongeant les vomissuresd’un ivrogne ; mais toujjours plongeant dans l’intimité des maisons aux fenêtres éclairées ou sombres,…
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Le Hachette, coll. le rayon fantastique n°88, 307 pages. Perhaps for the first time in the history of science fiction (ed. note: 1962), the hero – the spaceship pilot – is a woman! Tellur has received his mission from the old mage of a planet thought to be insignificant. Seven worlds are on his agenda, seven…
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Le Hachette, coll. le rayon fantastique n°99, 261 pages. In the 30th century, other thinking races in the galaxy joined Humanity to form the great “anthropomorphic” confederation, centered on the planet Phaedra. But one race, born of monstrous crossbreeding, possesses, along with thought, the most hideously opposite form to that of Man. Is Fausta, the young…