La fille de l’air
Lucie et la narratrice sont deux amies originaires d'un village du Sud où elles se retrouvent quand elles rentrent chez leurs parents. À Paris, Lucie poursuit des études et mène ses aventures. À l'occasion d'un séjour chez elle, elle rencontre J. et, sous les yeux passionnément attentifs de la narratrice, tout se transforme pour «la fille de l'air».
Ce roman d’initiation au style singulier dessine en quelques mots un personnage, avec ses contradictions et ses particularités. Il procède par digressions et accumulations, mêlant récit et dialogue avec brio.
- Bleue
- Paru le 10/01/2013
- Genre : Littérature française
- 176 pages - 118 x 185 mm
- EAN : 9782715233126
- ISBN : 9782715233126
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Presentation
The narrator and Lucie are two childhood friends from the same village in the South of France. They meet again when they go home to see their parents. The two young women are very different. Lucie loves adventure, wine, cigarettes: In Paris, she lives life to the full, flunking her studies spectacularly! As for the narrator, she is a much quieter character, isn’t so well travelled. When Lucie meets J. in the village, a 44-year-old, married with three children, she realizes that this experience will be unlike any other. Is she falling in love for the first time of her life? The narrator is well placed to see the events unfolding.
La Fille de l’air is a coming of age novel whose brilliant writing brings each complex and unique character to life. Story and dialogue are harmoniously intertwined in this spellbinding novel with an implacable lesson: “Life isn’t long enough to get even with an uneventful, too quiet childhood.”
Sophie Koltcha is 24 years old. La Fille de l’air is her first novel.
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