Les Illustres Francaises
by Robert Challe and edited by Jacques Cormier, afterword by Rene Demoris
Paperback (Published)
(October 2014)
ISBN: 9782812429668
Price: $83.00
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Les Illustres francaises assembles seven couples who, in the Paris of Louis XIV, are subject to the obstacles which familial strategies have put in the way of their happiness. The autodiegetic mode of narration means that competing versions of the same event, felt differently by different people, can be brought together.
- By (author) Robert Challe
- Afterword by Rene Demoris
- Edited by Jacques Cormier
Review - French Les Illustres francaises, recit plein de rires, de pleurs, de bruit et de fureur, rassemble dans le Paris de Louis XIV sept couples en proie aux obstacles que les strategies familiales opposent a leur bonheur. Ce roman de groupe est constitue de sept histoires qui interferent entre elles. Le mode autodiegetique de la narration conduit a une confrontation des differentes versions d'un meme evenement, pourtant vecu en commun mais ressenti par chacun de facon differente. Au fil des conversations, chaque histoire revet un autre sens. Au coeur de la nebuleuse des Illustres Francaises rayonne le soleil noir de la sixieme histoire, l'histoire de Silvie, qui irradie les autres recits de sa densite tragique et leur confere une dimension bouleversante.
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