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Zoe
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781504984249
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Mar 9 2016
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book was inspired by a meeting with Lou Albert Lasard, the last living mistress of the poet Rilke. Preface by Anais Nin.
Zoe is the story of a woman and her recollections at age seventy-nine of her lifelong love, Ritter, a renowned poet. The narrative, beginning in the present-day Paris, covers one-half century scarred by two wars and falls into reminiscence of her flight from her husband and child, the all-consuming love affair, its dissolution, her adventures with other men. These memories are set against the reality of her present age. As a once young, loved, beautiful woman, Zoe is coping with the decay of age and time, yet nonetheless displays a primal vitality in her actions, emotions, and perceptions.
This remarkable portrait of a woman-her many selves that are born and die in others eyes, her desire to steep herself in love, her special relationship to time-was inspired by Ms. Rovit meeting in France with the last living mistress of a great writer and imagining what her life may have been like.
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