Notre si chère vieille dame auteur
Première sélection Prix Goncourt 2022
Deuxième sélection Prix Médicis 2022
À son habitude, Anne Serre livre ici un roman plein de chausse-trappes, aux allures de conte, sur l’enfance mystérieuse et l’écriture à l’œuvre. Chez elle, comme le disait W.G. Sebald de Robert Walser : « Le narrateur ne sait jamais très bien s’il se trouve au milieu de la rue ou au milieu d’une phrase. »
- Bleue
- Paru le 25/08/2022
- Genre : Littérature française
- 128 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715256538
- ISBN : 9782715256538
Foreign Rights
Our Darling Old Lady Author
Rights sold
Dutch (Uitgeverij Vleugels), English and German rights under priority.
Awards
**Long-listed Goncourt Prize 2022**
Presentation
A dying old woman, who is a writer, leaves an unpublished and messy manuscript, in which some pages are missing. A film director, a cameraman and a script girl, who came to film a documentary on her, are determined to reconstitute it. But the old lady is not alone: the young woman she used to be is nearby, as well as an odd man who was her father, and a red hated boy who was her friend during summers, a certain Hans who never says more than a sentence in a row…
As usual, Anne Serre writes a novel full of tricks, which looks like a tale, about the impenetrable nature of childhood and the act of writing. In her book, as W.G. Sebald said about Robert Walser : “ The narrator never really knows if he is in the middle of the street or in the middle of a sentence.”
Anne Serre is the author of some fifteen novels, including Les débutants (rights sold: USA – New Directions), Le narrateur (rights sold: USA – New Directions, shortlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Books Awards; UK: Les Fugitives) and Voyage avec Vila-Matas (rights sold: Spain – L’Art de la Memoria). She awarded the Goncourt Prize 2020 for short stories with Au coeur d’un été tout en or (rights sold: Germany – Berenberg Verlag, Slovenia - Litera).
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