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Naakt
1974: De film 'Emmanuelle' wordt een van de grootste Franse kassuccessen aller tijden. Op de filmposter staat een onbekend meisje van twintig jaar, met ontbloot bovenlijf en kort haar, poserend op een rieten stoel. Een nieuwe ster is geboren: Sylvia Kristel.
Sylvia krijgt een relatie met Hugo Claus en woont o.a. in Parijs en maakt kennis met vele beroemdheden. Maar ze ondervindt ook de schaduwkanten van het glamourleven: drank, drugs en gesneuvelde huwelijken. In Nederland bouwt ze een bestaan op als actrice en schilderes.
'Naakt' is een eerlijk en aangrijpende autobiografie van een Nederlands filmfenomeen.
Sylvia krijgt een relatie met Hugo Claus en woont o.a. in Parijs en maakt kennis met vele beroemdheden. Maar ze ondervindt ook de schaduwkanten van het glamourleven: drank, drugs en gesneuvelde huwelijken. In Nederland bouwt ze een bestaan op als actrice en schilderes.
'Naakt' is een eerlijk en aangrijpende autobiografie van een Nederlands filmfenomeen.
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First published January 1, 2006
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5 books1 followerSylvia Kristel was a Dutch actress, best known for her portrayal of Emmanuelle in "Emmanuelle" (1974) and its sequels.
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August 13, 2021
I had written a review of the film “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” on Letterboxd. It had starred Sylvia Kristel and, for being a fairly low budget and soft core production by the director of “Emmanuelle,” it was surprisingly faithful to the D.H. Lawrence book. Another reviewer had mentioned that for anyone wanting to learn more about Sylvia Kristel, her autobiography was indispensable. I did a quick search on Amazon and was surprised to discover that the Kindle version was available for less than $3.00.
UNDRESSING EMMANUELLE: A LIFE STRIPPED BARE is a remarkably frank and unusual style of autobiography. First of all, it was not “ghost written” or “written in collaboration.” What is presented is pure, unfiltered Sylvia Kristel. I believe there were 87 chapters, and the bulk of them were quite short in length … only a few pages or so. And what is revealed is essentially the accounting of a child who never grew up until near the end of her life.
So, why the short chapters?
Think back over the details of incidents in your own life. Do they form a cohesive narrative, or are they flashes of moments … specific details that strongly stood out for you? That is how Sylvia Kristel writes the bulk of this book. For example, her childhood is revealed in a series of vivid recollections. She does fill in details as a foundation, but not a great deal. The result was often that I felt I was with her, listening to her tell me about moments that were important to her.
Many of those moments of importance are lessons learned. A lot of regret fills these pages as well as emotional maturing that takes a very, very long time. Considering her presence on the screen, it is surprising to discover how easily she can be hurt by others whose opinions really don’t matter. And her constant yearning to fill “belonging gaps” in her life lead to incredibly poor choices that seemed right at the time.
There are certain times in her recounting that have more description, especially when events linked together. If you want to know what it was like to film “Emmanuelle” and the world response to it, there is much more than the usual amount of information. Obviously, this was a life-changing event. If you are interested in learning more about the making of her most successful film, “Private Lessons,” it is barely mentioned at all. And the details of most of her later films revolve around off-set romances that flared and quickly dwindled.
Warren Beatty appears a few times, and her interactions (and insights) were quite involving. My favorite celebrity story, though, is her encounter with Bette Davis.
The truly devastating part of the book is her addiction to alcohol and drugs. She doesn’t present this as something harrowing as much as she does living in a haze from which she emerges to work and to seek emotional and physical love. And there is great sadness as her closest connections age and die. In her later years, her unhealthy lifestyle resulted in cancer. The book was published in 2007. After finishing it, I looked up her entry on IMDB and found the unhappy news that she’d died in 2012. For a few minutes, I felt a genuine sense of loss.
UNDRESSING EMMANUELLE: A LIFE STRIPPED BARE has its failings. The “memory images” format leaves much information unexplored. Curiously enough, for those most interested in a “celebrity tell-all,” this spotty approach leads to many more incidents being offered than would have been found in a narrative of similar length. When the story ended, I wanted more. Still, I doubt this would have any appeal for those who have no knowledge of or limited interest in Sylvia Kristel.
UNDRESSING EMMANUELLE: A LIFE STRIPPED BARE is a remarkably frank and unusual style of autobiography. First of all, it was not “ghost written” or “written in collaboration.” What is presented is pure, unfiltered Sylvia Kristel. I believe there were 87 chapters, and the bulk of them were quite short in length … only a few pages or so. And what is revealed is essentially the accounting of a child who never grew up until near the end of her life.
So, why the short chapters?
Think back over the details of incidents in your own life. Do they form a cohesive narrative, or are they flashes of moments … specific details that strongly stood out for you? That is how Sylvia Kristel writes the bulk of this book. For example, her childhood is revealed in a series of vivid recollections. She does fill in details as a foundation, but not a great deal. The result was often that I felt I was with her, listening to her tell me about moments that were important to her.
Many of those moments of importance are lessons learned. A lot of regret fills these pages as well as emotional maturing that takes a very, very long time. Considering her presence on the screen, it is surprising to discover how easily she can be hurt by others whose opinions really don’t matter. And her constant yearning to fill “belonging gaps” in her life lead to incredibly poor choices that seemed right at the time.
There are certain times in her recounting that have more description, especially when events linked together. If you want to know what it was like to film “Emmanuelle” and the world response to it, there is much more than the usual amount of information. Obviously, this was a life-changing event. If you are interested in learning more about the making of her most successful film, “Private Lessons,” it is barely mentioned at all. And the details of most of her later films revolve around off-set romances that flared and quickly dwindled.
Warren Beatty appears a few times, and her interactions (and insights) were quite involving. My favorite celebrity story, though, is her encounter with Bette Davis.
The truly devastating part of the book is her addiction to alcohol and drugs. She doesn’t present this as something harrowing as much as she does living in a haze from which she emerges to work and to seek emotional and physical love. And there is great sadness as her closest connections age and die. In her later years, her unhealthy lifestyle resulted in cancer. The book was published in 2007. After finishing it, I looked up her entry on IMDB and found the unhappy news that she’d died in 2012. For a few minutes, I felt a genuine sense of loss.
UNDRESSING EMMANUELLE: A LIFE STRIPPED BARE has its failings. The “memory images” format leaves much information unexplored. Curiously enough, for those most interested in a “celebrity tell-all,” this spotty approach leads to many more incidents being offered than would have been found in a narrative of similar length. When the story ended, I wanted more. Still, I doubt this would have any appeal for those who have no knowledge of or limited interest in Sylvia Kristel.
July 17, 2015
"I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce."
Sylvia Kristel became a star almost overnight as "Emmanuelle". It opened some new doors for her but she was forever associated with the character, forever typecast. Her life as a celebrity soon became a life of drug abuse, debt, a failed career and a failure as a mother.
Kristel writes beautifully and with great insight about her life from her childhood, her relationship to her parents and about the pain of her parents' divorce. It's a fascinating, beautifully written and sometimes moving memoir by this underappreciated actress
Sylvia Kristel became a star almost overnight as "Emmanuelle". It opened some new doors for her but she was forever associated with the character, forever typecast. Her life as a celebrity soon became a life of drug abuse, debt, a failed career and a failure as a mother.
Kristel writes beautifully and with great insight about her life from her childhood, her relationship to her parents and about the pain of her parents' divorce. It's a fascinating, beautifully written and sometimes moving memoir by this underappreciated actress
June 23, 2013
Spirited and exceptionally gifted, this quite remarkable and elegantly sparse memoir gives a wonderful snapshot and portrait of the 70's adult film star. It's rather beguiling in parts and says a lot of wonderful things about certain elements of sexual politics but more so than anything, it's quite tender and well written. Adorably so even.
August 25, 2022
I have had this book years starting & leaving but finally read, Sylvia tells an unusual account of her life, she does not feel sorry for herself, she does not slag of the men in her life as if she takes the knocks with the smooth, her children, her career, a very good read
September 21, 2013
Interesting to note that Sylvia Kristel did most of her work and play in the throes of serious drug and alcohol abuse. The only way to overcome her own conservative and reserved nature was to deaden herself and dance away her pain. Sad that she did not attempt to know herself sober and to overcome whatever it was that kept herself hidden from even the people she felt most important in her life. The first half of the book is very good but then with the onset of alcohol and drug abuse the Hollywood syndrome takes over, and celebrity and the quest for shallow victories hastens her ultimate departure from her truest self. Not sure she ever recovered though she attempted in her own words to claim that she did. A lot of shallow name-dropping towards the end of the book but understandable for a washed-up B-grade movie star who had one of the most beautiful combinations of intelligence, good looks, and a very fine body.
November 9, 2012
In 1967, an writer calling herself Emmanuelle Arsan published in France an erotic novel about a young woman's sexual awakening that became a sensation and is now considered one of the erotic classics of the 20th Century. This book was Emmanuelle. In 1974, the book was adapted into a film starring a 20-year old Dutch actress and model, Sylvia Kristel , as Emmanuelle. The movie and Sylvia Kristel also became sensations. Ms. Kristel had a relatively successful film career for the next 10 years starring in two sequels and other similar films in what is now known as softcore.
Ms. Kristel published her autobiography, Undressing Emmanuelle, in 2007. The book is a recounting of her life growing up in a dysfunctional family that lived in a hotel during her early years until she was sent to a boarding school. Her parents divorced and her mother and siblings were forced to move out of the hotel. Sylvia, at a loss of what to do, found herself being p
ursued for her beauty and took advantage of that to become a model and actress. After winning the Miss TV Europe contest in England in 1973, she auditioned for the role of Emmanuelle which she won. It was to become her greatest success but also a millstone around her neck as she was typecast from then on.
Her life spiraled downward through affairs, short term relationships, alcohol (both her parents were alcoholics), and drugs (cocaine, mostly) finally bottoming out when she was told she would die if she didn't stop. Of her many relationships, the two most notable for us in America would be Warren Beatty and Ian McShane. None of her relationships lasted extremely long although several lasted a few years.
In her later years, she would appear on TV shows (mostly in Europe) and spent much of her time living in her native Netherlands painting. After surviving cancer, she continues to live a life removed from the spotlight in The Netherlands.
Her autobiography is a fascinating read. She does not shy away from her mistakes and foibles. Her writing style is very matter of fact, almost dispassionate. In many ways it seems as if she was an observer and recorder of her own life as opposed to an active participant. I felt a distance from her while reading it. The book itself is a fairly quick read with fairly short chapters. Can I recommend it? Yes, if you are interested in whether she is really Emmanuelle (no) and how she lived through those years and survived. But I will caution that her matter of factness and dispassion make it hard for the reader to really care. She's had an eventual life and not all of it good, but her own lack of emotion in the telling makes it difficult for the reader to have an emotional investment. And maybe that what she wanted.
Ms. Kristel published her autobiography, Undressing Emmanuelle, in 2007. The book is a recounting of her life growing up in a dysfunctional family that lived in a hotel during her early years until she was sent to a boarding school. Her parents divorced and her mother and siblings were forced to move out of the hotel. Sylvia, at a loss of what to do, found herself being p
ursued for her beauty and took advantage of that to become a model and actress. After winning the Miss TV Europe contest in England in 1973, she auditioned for the role of Emmanuelle which she won. It was to become her greatest success but also a millstone around her neck as she was typecast from then on.
Her life spiraled downward through affairs, short term relationships, alcohol (both her parents were alcoholics), and drugs (cocaine, mostly) finally bottoming out when she was told she would die if she didn't stop. Of her many relationships, the two most notable for us in America would be Warren Beatty and Ian McShane. None of her relationships lasted extremely long although several lasted a few years.
In her later years, she would appear on TV shows (mostly in Europe) and spent much of her time living in her native Netherlands painting. After surviving cancer, she continues to live a life removed from the spotlight in The Netherlands.
Her autobiography is a fascinating read. She does not shy away from her mistakes and foibles. Her writing style is very matter of fact, almost dispassionate. In many ways it seems as if she was an observer and recorder of her own life as opposed to an active participant. I felt a distance from her while reading it. The book itself is a fairly quick read with fairly short chapters. Can I recommend it? Yes, if you are interested in whether she is really Emmanuelle (no) and how she lived through those years and survived. But I will caution that her matter of factness and dispassion make it hard for the reader to really care. She's had an eventual life and not all of it good, but her own lack of emotion in the telling makes it difficult for the reader to have an emotional investment. And maybe that what she wanted.
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August 18, 2008This memoir recounts the life of Sylvia Kristell, the famous actress who notoriously played Emmanuelle. To be perfectly honest, I have never seen or heard of this movie and the only reason I was prompted to read this book is that I received it in a book swap at a recent Innocent village fete. It is very easy to read but not because of the author's mastery of prose but more so her very simplified and I would say almost childish manner which she recounts her life. I can't believe a publisher thought that this book would work!
March 23, 2022
I really enjoyed this. Ms. Kristal doesn't dress things up or put on a phony smile for anything or anybody, she just tells it almost in a by-the-numbers style which is refreshing. Nothing really scandalous or salacious, if you can believe that. She seems very grounded, although somewhat resigned to her fate.
The book ends in almost a semi-poetic, soft focus state.
The book ends in almost a semi-poetic, soft focus state.
March 23, 2011
Memoirs of Emmanuelle actress.Not terribly interesting person, though from a fairly fucked up family. Main impression is that she is a bit of a lazy cow that thinks the world should sort of owe her a living.
June 11, 2012
A quick read that gets a bit artsy at times, but is a candid and touching read.
May 3, 2016
Sylvia becomes Emmanuelle and is much sought after...then she isn't so much. A very quick read.
January 22, 2020
Interesssante blik op het bewogen leven van Sylvia Kristel alias Emmanuelle.
Zeer fijn om te lezen.
Zeer fijn om te lezen.
April 11, 2020
Un roman autobiografic plin de confesiuni și păreri de rău. Durere, droguri, alcool, viață ratată, dar în același timp - succes și căutare de sine.
August 7, 2020
Fascinating, a bit horrifying at times, sad, funny. The amount of cocaine used was scary (does anyone miss the 80s?).
Puts a human face on the professional face.
Puts a human face on the professional face.
October 6, 2023
This is an only partially undressed memoir that skips over major films and life events to ponder minutia. The star of nude films tries to convince us that she is an incredibly beautiful and the whole world was in love with her. Some of it is downright laughable as she repeats how many famous men wanted her, then complains that they think she actually is the nymph she played on screen.
So much of the book says very little and it's written in a staccato form with little chunks of thoughts here and there. Her Warren Beatty affair is eye-rollingly dull. Her being wooed by a Saudi billionaire's family member is forgettable. She tosses in a few paragraphs about two marriages and a little about a son that she admittedly ignored for most of his life (having him raised by his grandmother). It's all bland and somewhat sad.
If you're looking for depth on her film career you'll be disappointed. She's best known in America for the movie Private Lessons and that literally gets mentioned in less than a full paragraph. She skips past details of most of her other works. Meanwhile her decades-long drug and alcohol problems get bragged about.
There are a few fun moments where she throws famous celebrities and directors under the bus for trying to bed her. The only thing in the book that was somewhat surprising was her Catholicism and pro-life stance, saying, "The notion of aborting is unbearable to me. I accept the flow of life, the good and the bad."
In the book she makes some absurd statements:
"The beautiful pay more dearly than others--women are charged a great deal for having been beautiful." Right, that's why she became rich and famous off of her looks.
"Cocaine seems the opposite of a drug, more of a super-vitamin, something very fashionable, not really dangerous." Later she loses everything she has partially due to her dependency on this super-vitamin.
"I am nearly 40 years old. Strangely, my body is still in good shape. It must be genetic." Not sure how many 40-year-olds you've seen that are in terrible shape, but the author's view of the world is warped.
I went online to watch one of her Emmanualle movies and it wasn't as ground-breaking as she claims. All soft-core stuff, close to the style of the racy Bo Derek films. Kristel has overestimated her talents and impact while failing to totally strip bare for her life story.
So much of the book says very little and it's written in a staccato form with little chunks of thoughts here and there. Her Warren Beatty affair is eye-rollingly dull. Her being wooed by a Saudi billionaire's family member is forgettable. She tosses in a few paragraphs about two marriages and a little about a son that she admittedly ignored for most of his life (having him raised by his grandmother). It's all bland and somewhat sad.
If you're looking for depth on her film career you'll be disappointed. She's best known in America for the movie Private Lessons and that literally gets mentioned in less than a full paragraph. She skips past details of most of her other works. Meanwhile her decades-long drug and alcohol problems get bragged about.
There are a few fun moments where she throws famous celebrities and directors under the bus for trying to bed her. The only thing in the book that was somewhat surprising was her Catholicism and pro-life stance, saying, "The notion of aborting is unbearable to me. I accept the flow of life, the good and the bad."
In the book she makes some absurd statements:
"The beautiful pay more dearly than others--women are charged a great deal for having been beautiful." Right, that's why she became rich and famous off of her looks.
"Cocaine seems the opposite of a drug, more of a super-vitamin, something very fashionable, not really dangerous." Later she loses everything she has partially due to her dependency on this super-vitamin.
"I am nearly 40 years old. Strangely, my body is still in good shape. It must be genetic." Not sure how many 40-year-olds you've seen that are in terrible shape, but the author's view of the world is warped.
I went online to watch one of her Emmanualle movies and it wasn't as ground-breaking as she claims. All soft-core stuff, close to the style of the racy Bo Derek films. Kristel has overestimated her talents and impact while failing to totally strip bare for her life story.
November 16, 2025
Dankzij de podcast Geschiedenis Inside kwam ik tot ontdekking dat er films gemaakt waren over Mata Hari en onder andere met Sylvia Kristel. Een actrice waar ik niets van wist behalve dat er in de podcast opgemerkt werd dat die betreffende film over Mata Hari in de erotische hoek zat en zij Nederlands was. Gelijk had ik door dat zij een boeiende levensloop had omdat Nederlanders minder progressief zijn dat ze zich zelf voor doen en dat zij hier wel eens slachtoffer van kon zijn.
Het boek begint bij haar herinneringen aan haar jeugd in Hotel Commerce, eigenlijk het beste deel van het boek. Je realiseert je dat alles van haar jeugd verloren is gegaan aan de bouwdrift die geleidt heeft tot een nieuw Utrecht Centraal en Hoog Katherijne. Haar tijd in het internaat is beeldend beschreven en neemt je echt mee in deze periode van haar leven.
De momenten daarna vond ik niet zo heel spannend. Er werd heel lang stilgestaan bij het opnemen van de film Emmanuelle. Wel boeiend om te lezen wat er bij zo'n film komt kijken en dan met name de censuurcommisie die actief was in Frankrijk. Daarna gaat het vooral over het leven van een celebrity en volgt de patronen van de bekende cliches. De laatste passages lezen als een treurig bestaan maar je krijgt niet de indruk dat ze er zwaar onder heeft geleden.
Een lezenswaardig boek. Benieuwd naar de biografie over haar van Suzanne Rethans
Het boek begint bij haar herinneringen aan haar jeugd in Hotel Commerce, eigenlijk het beste deel van het boek. Je realiseert je dat alles van haar jeugd verloren is gegaan aan de bouwdrift die geleidt heeft tot een nieuw Utrecht Centraal en Hoog Katherijne. Haar tijd in het internaat is beeldend beschreven en neemt je echt mee in deze periode van haar leven.
De momenten daarna vond ik niet zo heel spannend. Er werd heel lang stilgestaan bij het opnemen van de film Emmanuelle. Wel boeiend om te lezen wat er bij zo'n film komt kijken en dan met name de censuurcommisie die actief was in Frankrijk. Daarna gaat het vooral over het leven van een celebrity en volgt de patronen van de bekende cliches. De laatste passages lezen als een treurig bestaan maar je krijgt niet de indruk dat ze er zwaar onder heeft geleden.
Een lezenswaardig boek. Benieuwd naar de biografie over haar van Suzanne Rethans
September 21, 2024
An interesting journey describing her dysfunctional childhood through to her acting career.
February 24, 2023
Het was eigenlijk met het nieuws dat regisseur Michael R. Roskam bezig is met een film over Sylvia Kristel dat ik opeens zin had om eens aan haar biografie te beginnen. Een actrice die bij het grote publiek bekend is van de Emmanuelle franchise (ze zou maar in liefst 5 delen een rol hebben) maar ik ken haar vooral van twee films van Vlaams regisseur Robbe de Hert: Gaston’s War en Lijmen/Het Been. Vreemd genoeg schreef de Nederlandse actrice haar biografie samen met Jean Arcelin in het Frans maar er is ook een Nederlandse vertaling te vinden.
Nue kan je dan ook vertalen als Naakt en dat is meteen ook de naam van de Nederlandse vertaling. De Engelse vertaling gaat het dan weer bij Emmanuelle zoeken: Undressing Emmanuelle, A Memoir. Beide zijn titels die op zich de lading wel op meerdere manieren dekken eigenlijk. In de eerste plaats wordt er gerefereerd naar de Emmanuelle periode waarin Kristel menigmaal uit de kleren gaat (een beslissing die haar haar volledige carrière zou achtervolgen) maar je kan het ook breder zien en dan wel in de zin dat Kristel niets achterhoudt. Ze heeft het onder andere over haar getroebleerde jeugd (met ook een bijna seksuele aanvaring met Oom Hans, de kok in het hotel van haar ouders, toen ze nog een klein meisje was) maar ook haar strijd met alcohol en drugs komt ruimschoots aan bod. Kristel is heerlijk eerlijk en doet dat bovendien in een stijl die erg vlotjes wegleest. Soms lijkt het meer wat weg te hebben van een dagboek waarin kort een aantal dingen worden neergepend maar het is fascinerend materiaal. Naarmate Kristel ouder wordt (en de drank en drugs ook de bovenhand nemen), worden de herinneringen vertroebeld en gaat ze in een sneltrein door bepaalde jaren. Niet dat ze daar niets over wil vertellen, het is gewoon één lange roes. Ondertussen is de actrice alweer een aantal jaar geleden gestorven (ze overleed aan de gevolgen van kanker in 2012, 6 jaar nadat ze haar biografie neerpende) en het boek eindigt ook met de eerste kankerdiagnoses.
Mooi dat ze dan toch nog een aantal jaar heeft kunnen overbruggen maar het blijft wel jammer dat ze reeds op 60-jarige leeftijd moest komen te gaan. Een gevuld leven weliswaar dat ongetwijfeld zijn tol geëist zal hebben. Er zijn veel hoogtepunten te noemen (onder andere een ontmoeting met Bette Davis!) en sowieso wel fijn om eens wat meer over haar relatie met Hugo Claus te lezen. Dat is een aspect dat vaak toch wat onderbelicht blijft wanneer het over Claus gaat.
Nue kan je dan ook vertalen als Naakt en dat is meteen ook de naam van de Nederlandse vertaling. De Engelse vertaling gaat het dan weer bij Emmanuelle zoeken: Undressing Emmanuelle, A Memoir. Beide zijn titels die op zich de lading wel op meerdere manieren dekken eigenlijk. In de eerste plaats wordt er gerefereerd naar de Emmanuelle periode waarin Kristel menigmaal uit de kleren gaat (een beslissing die haar haar volledige carrière zou achtervolgen) maar je kan het ook breder zien en dan wel in de zin dat Kristel niets achterhoudt. Ze heeft het onder andere over haar getroebleerde jeugd (met ook een bijna seksuele aanvaring met Oom Hans, de kok in het hotel van haar ouders, toen ze nog een klein meisje was) maar ook haar strijd met alcohol en drugs komt ruimschoots aan bod. Kristel is heerlijk eerlijk en doet dat bovendien in een stijl die erg vlotjes wegleest. Soms lijkt het meer wat weg te hebben van een dagboek waarin kort een aantal dingen worden neergepend maar het is fascinerend materiaal. Naarmate Kristel ouder wordt (en de drank en drugs ook de bovenhand nemen), worden de herinneringen vertroebeld en gaat ze in een sneltrein door bepaalde jaren. Niet dat ze daar niets over wil vertellen, het is gewoon één lange roes. Ondertussen is de actrice alweer een aantal jaar geleden gestorven (ze overleed aan de gevolgen van kanker in 2012, 6 jaar nadat ze haar biografie neerpende) en het boek eindigt ook met de eerste kankerdiagnoses.
Mooi dat ze dan toch nog een aantal jaar heeft kunnen overbruggen maar het blijft wel jammer dat ze reeds op 60-jarige leeftijd moest komen te gaan. Een gevuld leven weliswaar dat ongetwijfeld zijn tol geëist zal hebben. Er zijn veel hoogtepunten te noemen (onder andere een ontmoeting met Bette Davis!) en sowieso wel fijn om eens wat meer over haar relatie met Hugo Claus te lezen. Dat is een aspect dat vaak toch wat onderbelicht blijft wanneer het over Claus gaat.
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December 29, 2020
To me, what a beautiful woman, inside and out. I appreciate reading about people from my generation, but agonize about how many didn't find happiness. To me it is a lonely story, with to much unfortunate sadness. But i guess that is life.
February 6, 2022
Bijzondere vrouw met een bijzonder leven. Mooi tijdsbeeld.
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