Marie - Hardcover

Bourdouxhe, Madeleine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747533334 ISBN 13: 9780747533337

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997

Synopsis

Marie is so devoted to her husband Jean that she overlooks his casual betrayals. Yet, with surprising ease she takes a lover - a young student whom she encounters on holiday in the South of France. Marie remains tied to the realities of her life.

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Review

An unforgettable, thrilling achievement . . . stakes a claim to Bourdouxhe s rightful position alongside Proust and Virginia Woolf as an explorer of interior life . . . inspiring and impassioned. --Sunday Times

Exquisite, quiet, elegant, disciplined and nonsentimental. --Irish Times

Madeleine Bourdouxhe is one of the more remarkable literary discoveries of the last few years. --Jonathan Coe

About the Author

Madeleine Bourdouxhe was born in Belgium in 1906. La Femme de Gilles (1937) was her first novel. The outbreak of the Second World War interrupted her writing career, and her second novel, Marie, wasn't published until 1943. In the mid-1980s her work was rediscovered, and translated into many languages. A volume of short stories, A Nail, a Rose, first appeared in English in 1989, followed by translations of La Femme de Gilles and Marie. Bourdouxhe died in 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0747533334
• ISBN 13: 9780747533337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 183