Ève Et Autres Nouvelles

by Jacqueline Harpman

" Je veux avant tout dire la vrit sur l'affaire du serpent. Je suis indigne. Je me demande pourquoi l'ternel laisse courir tant de mensonges... " Aprs tant d'annes de silence, ve nous rvle l'histoiredu pch originel. Et si la faute n'est plus celle que l'on a crue, elle n'en est que plus plaisante et ne manque pas de piquant. Un savant dosage d'espiglerie, de fantasme, de vie ddouble compose ces nouvelles qui adoptent parfois unton plus nigmatique et visionnaire. A n'en pas douter, Jacqueline Harpman sait nous conter des histoires !

168 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929. Being half Jewish, the family moved to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and returned home after the war. After studying French literature she started training to be a doctor, but could not complete her medical studies when she contracted tuberculosis. She turned to writing in 1954 and her first work was published in 1958. In 1980 she qualified as a psychoanalyst. She had given up writing after her fourth book was published, and resumed her career as a novelist only some twenty years later. She wrote twelve novels and won several literary prizes, most recently the Médicis for the present novel. She was married to an architect and had two children.

Reviews

[Olivera · Rating 4 out of 5]

ja vama ne mogu da objasnim koliko volim Žaklin Arpman