Comme elle l'imagine
Laure est tombée amoureuse de Vincent en discutant avec lui sur Facebook. Depuis des mois, ils échangent aussi des SMS à longueur de journée. Elle sait tout de lui, de ses goûts, de ses habitudes mais tout reste virtuel. Si Vincent tarde à lui répondre, l’imagination de Laure prend le pouvoir et remplit le vide, elle s’inquiète, s’agace, glisse de l’incertitude à l’obsession. Quand une rencontre réelle se profile, Laure est fébrile : est-ce le début d’une histoire d’amour ou bien une illusion qui se brise?
Subtile analyste du sentiment amoureux, Stéphanie Dupays interroge notre époque et les nouvelles manières d’aimer et signe aussi un roman d’amour intemporel sur l’éveil du désir, l’attente, le doute, le ravissement.
- Bleue
- Paru le 07/03/2019
- Genre : Littérature française
- 160 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715249882
- ISBN : 9782715249882
Foreign Rights
How She Imagines Him
Short-listed Prix Marie-Claire du Roman 2019
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Presentation
Laure is a professor of literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris. When she returns home, she looks forward to being with Vincent. Because she has never felt so close to someone, because she shares with him same angers and same admirations…
However, Laure has never seen Vincent: he is only a virtual conversation partner on Facebook! She knows everything about him, his tastes and habits. They exchange with SMS all day long. Should Vincent be slow to respond, Laure flaps, doubts and gets annoyed. She scrutinizes each words of his messages, analysing and interpreting them. They spend hours discussing via digital screens late into the night. But the virtual has limitations: five months later, an appointment is arranged. In real life, will the charm be at the rendez-vous?
Do the new communication networks like Facebook change the codes of seduction and the lover’s discourse? Stéphanie Dupays questions our time and focuses on love 2.0.
Stéphanie Dupays works as an inspector at the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs. She is the author of a remarkable first novel, Brillante.
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