La Fille démantelée

by Jacqueline Harpman

« Mais comment tue-t-on sa mère quand elle est déjà morte ? » Edmée va tenter de le faire en racontant leur histoire : chaque mot est un cri pour se délivrer de Rose, cette mère dans la lignée de Mme Lepic et de Folcoche. Elle va la mettre à nu et en tracer un portrait terrible. Dure, égoïste, Rose a été une enfant mal aimée. Et Edmée, dans ses tentatives d’élucidation, livre ici un violent réquisitoire contre une relation de haine et d’amour qui l’a marquée à jamais.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

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

[Florence · Rating 5 out of 5]

Une de mes auteurs préférés!

[Leonardo Tonus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tout simplement sublime! Quel style!