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Les Marais
Il y a des familles sur lesquelles le malheur et la fatalité pèsent plus lourd que sur d’autres. Le drame qui se joue au sein de la maison Tord est le pire de tous : celui qui se répète de génération en génération.Entre les murs d’une sombre bâtisse, Madame Tord et ses cinq enfants subissent quotidiennement la tyrannie d’un patriarche en mal de reconnaissance. Gare à celui qui dérangera le père, jamais avare de coups de fouet, de gifles ou de coups de pied. Une manière de fuir cette ambiance sourde sera de se réfugier dans un monde imaginaire aux dimensions insolites. Mais les événements auront raison de chacun d'eux : la mort accidentelle de la petite Barbe, la fuite de Ludegarde qui cherche à se délivrer des « marais » de son enfance, la départ d’Alban auprès d’une jeune femme rencontrée au hasard de ses fugues, tout cela brise leur rêve de liberté et l’univers visionnaire qu’ils s’étaient créés. Irrésistiblement, la maison Tord les ramène à elle, vieillis et désenchantés.
296 pages, Pocket Book
First published January 1, 1991
About the author
Dominique Rolin
50 books3 followersDominique Rolin (22 May 1913 – 15 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist.
Her career was launched by Jean Cocteau and Jean Paulhan during the Second World War. Over some sixty years she developed a unique, feminist voice in French novel-writing, blending seamlessly autobiography and fiction, and centered on two men, her first husband, a sculptor, and avant-garde writer and theorist Philippe Sollers with whom, in spite of an age gap, she had a half-century secret relationship. She was a Femina Prize winner and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy.
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Her career was launched by Jean Cocteau and Jean Paulhan during the Second World War. Over some sixty years she developed a unique, feminist voice in French novel-writing, blending seamlessly autobiography and fiction, and centered on two men, her first husband, a sculptor, and avant-garde writer and theorist Philippe Sollers with whom, in spite of an age gap, she had a half-century secret relationship. She was a Femina Prize winner and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy.
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