Marie Darrieussecq





Marie Darrieussecq

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born
in France
January 03, 1969

gender
female


About this author

Marie Darrieussecq was born on January 3, 1969. She was raised in a small village in the Basque Country.

While finishing her PhD in French literature, she wrote her first novel, Truismes (Pig Tales) which was published in September 1996 by Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (POL), who have published all her subsequent novels as well. After the success of Truismes, Darrieussecq decided to quit her teaching position at the University of Lille to concentrate on writing her novels. Her first husband was a mathematician and her second is an astrophysicist. She gave birth to a son in 2001 and to a daughter in 2004.

She endorsed Ségolène Royal's candidacy during the French Presidential Elections of 2007.


Average rating: 3.41 · 849 ratings · 124 reviews · 25 distinct works · Similar authors
Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust ...
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 460 ratings — published 1996 — 22 editions
My Phantom Husband
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
Le bébé
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
Tom est mort
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
White
3.11 of 5 stars 3.11 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
Undercurrents
by
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
A Brief Stay With The Living
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
Clèves
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
truismes
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996
Zoo
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006
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“The emptiness is so intense, that anything which enters it leaves a trace, something of it remains in space: in the silence, in the whiteness, nothingness becomes peopled, too.”
Marie Darrieussecq, White

“Par exemple, tu vois, là, tu crois que tu es en train de me parler, mais peut-être pas. Peut-être que tu imagines que tu me parles, et moi en vrai je ne t'écoute pas. Alors qu'on pourrait se parler directement de soi à soi. Tu vois, il vaut mieux rencontrer l'altérité, quitte à être malheureux, que rester dans sa petite sûreté personnelle. L'essentiel c'est d'avoir des failles. Pas sa petite conscience tranquille. (p154)”
Marie Darrieussecq, Clèves

“Elle essaie de former des sons avec sa bouche. Mais ils éclatent comme des bulles, et ne reste qu'une impression blanche, un pli dans quelque chose qui se lisse dès qu'apparu, qui s'efface sitôt pensé. (p245)”
Marie Darrieussecq, Clèves

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