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Le livre de ma vie
• Actualité : la Roumanie, pays invité à l'honneur au Salon du livre 2013. • Sans doute le livre le plus accessible d'Anna de Noailles, qui permet d'entrer dans son univers avec le plus d'aisance.
À quelques mois de sa mort prématurée, Anna de Noailles (1876-1933) se résout à écrire ses Mémoires. Elle n'aura pas le temps de mener cet ultime projet à son terme : Le Livre de ma vie sera, en fait, le récit d'une enfance et d'une adolescence à la fin du XIXe siècle. Naissance dans une famille princière venue des rives du Danube et du Bosphore, enfance aux bords de la Seine et du lac Léman, adolescence inquiète, désordonnée, ivre de poésie et de reconnaissance : la " petite Assyrienne " chère à Anatole France ne cache rien de ses émois, de ses rêves, de ses révoltes, de ses ambitions.
La présente édition du Livre de ma vie est augmentée de deux textes peu connus : Ici finit mon enfance , avant-propos aux Poèmes d'enfance , et La Lyre naturelle¸ texte d'une conférence demeurée inédite. L'ensemble compose un surprenant autoportrait de celle que Proust surnommait " une femme-mage " et Catherine Pozzi " la dame des exagérations éblouissantes ".
À quelques mois de sa mort prématurée, Anna de Noailles (1876-1933) se résout à écrire ses Mémoires. Elle n'aura pas le temps de mener cet ultime projet à son terme : Le Livre de ma vie sera, en fait, le récit d'une enfance et d'une adolescence à la fin du XIXe siècle. Naissance dans une famille princière venue des rives du Danube et du Bosphore, enfance aux bords de la Seine et du lac Léman, adolescence inquiète, désordonnée, ivre de poésie et de reconnaissance : la " petite Assyrienne " chère à Anatole France ne cache rien de ses émois, de ses rêves, de ses révoltes, de ses ambitions.
La présente édition du Livre de ma vie est augmentée de deux textes peu connus : Ici finit mon enfance , avant-propos aux Poèmes d'enfance , et La Lyre naturelle¸ texte d'une conférence demeurée inédite. L'ensemble compose un surprenant autoportrait de celle que Proust surnommait " une femme-mage " et Catherine Pozzi " la dame des exagérations éblouissantes ".
286 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1932
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Anna de Noailles
61 books25 followersBorn Princess Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan in Paris, she was a descendant of the Bibescu and Craioveşti families of Romanian boyars. Her father was Prince Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba, a son of Wallachian Prince Gheorghe Bibesco and Zoe Mavrocordato-Bassaraba de Brancovan. Her Greek mother was the former Ralouka (Rachel) Mussurus, a musician, to whom the Polish composer Ignacy Paderewski dedicated several of his compositions. Via her mother, Anna de Noailles is a great-great-granddaughter of Sophronius of Vratsa, one of the leading figures of the Bulgarian National Revival, through his grandson Stefan Bogoridi, caimacam of Moldavia.
In 1897 she married Mathieu Fernand Frédéric Pascal de Noailles (1873–1942), the fourth son of the 7th Duke de Noailles. The couple soon became the toast of Parisian high society. They had one child, a son, Count Anne-Jules de Noailles (1900–1979).
Anna de Noailles wrote three novels, an autobiography, and many collections of poetry. She had friendly relations with the intellectual, literary and artistic elite of the day including Marcel Proust, Francis Jammes, Colette, André Gide, Frédéric Mistral, Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Loti, Paul Hervieu, and Max Jacob.
So popular was Anna de Noailles that various notable artists of the day painted her portrait, including Antonio de la Gandara, Kees van Dongen, Jacques Émile Blanche, and the British portrait painter Philip de Laszlo. In 1906 her image was sculpted by Auguste Rodin; the clay model can be seen today in the Musée Rodin in Paris, and the finished marble bust is on display in New York's Metropolitan Museum.
She died in 1933 in Paris, aged 56, and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. She was a cousin of Prince Antoine Bibesco, Princess Martha Bibescu and Elena Văcărescu.
Anna de Noailles was the first woman to become a Commander of the Legion of Honor, the first woman to be received in the Royal Belgian Academy of French Language and Literature, and she was honored with the "Grand Prix" of the Académie Française in 1921.
In 1897 she married Mathieu Fernand Frédéric Pascal de Noailles (1873–1942), the fourth son of the 7th Duke de Noailles. The couple soon became the toast of Parisian high society. They had one child, a son, Count Anne-Jules de Noailles (1900–1979).
Anna de Noailles wrote three novels, an autobiography, and many collections of poetry. She had friendly relations with the intellectual, literary and artistic elite of the day including Marcel Proust, Francis Jammes, Colette, André Gide, Frédéric Mistral, Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Loti, Paul Hervieu, and Max Jacob.
So popular was Anna de Noailles that various notable artists of the day painted her portrait, including Antonio de la Gandara, Kees van Dongen, Jacques Émile Blanche, and the British portrait painter Philip de Laszlo. In 1906 her image was sculpted by Auguste Rodin; the clay model can be seen today in the Musée Rodin in Paris, and the finished marble bust is on display in New York's Metropolitan Museum.
She died in 1933 in Paris, aged 56, and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. She was a cousin of Prince Antoine Bibesco, Princess Martha Bibescu and Elena Văcărescu.
Anna de Noailles was the first woman to become a Commander of the Legion of Honor, the first woman to be received in the Royal Belgian Academy of French Language and Literature, and she was honored with the "Grand Prix" of the Académie Française in 1921.
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