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Pour Les Siecles Des Siecles
Paperback
ISBN13: 9782234061620
Publisher: Stock
Published: Apr 9 2021
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: French
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This book is composed of seven short stories about love and seduction, desire and tenderness. Seven men and women meet, attract each other, look for the other or hide from him or her. Their names are the names of legendary couples that literature turned into myths. Yet these particular Romeo and Juliet, Paul and Virginie are part of our contemporary world and share our doubts as well as our illusory craving for happiness. Will Dante fall in love with a Beatrix that is really not his type? Will Juliet open a letter that is addressed to Romeo? What is certain is that Marcel is still in love with Albertine, and will continue to love her for the centuries to come. Albertine has just died at the age of ninety three.
Anne Plantagenet's book moves seamlessly from the comedy of love to the poignant tale of a lover's last days. She records minute but significant details, gestures and words that can change a life. While each short story creates its own specific atmosphere, images and situations resonate across the book and endow this collection with a remarkable sense of cohesion and harmony.
Anne Plantagenet studied literature in Paris then lived in London and Seville. She is the author of two documentary films on Seville, of numerous translations from Spanish to French, as well as a biography of the torero Manolete (Ramsay, 2005), and of Marilyn Monroe (Folio Biographies, 2007). She has also published a biographical novel about Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Seule au rendez-vous (Laffont, 2005, recipient of the récit biographique award) and her first novel, Un coup de corne fut mon premier baiser, was published by Ramsay in 1998.
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