Severe: A love story - Softcover

Regis Jauffret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956808247 ISBN 13: 9780956808240

Publisher: Salammbo Press, 2013

Synopsis

A love story. Despite the whips, the humiliations, the latex and the bullets.

Severe is the author's fictionalised take on a sensational and tragic event: the murder of a rich banker by his lover, as recounted by her. Régis Jauffret makes the narrator's story entirely credible: every sentence carries her tortuous personality, and she gives a loving and far from conventional picture of the banker. A performance all the more remarkable as he might appear as the archetypical debauched millionaire. But Régis Jauffret does not moralise and he acknowledges no sins. He knows that love stories are private planets where the only valid laws are those that allow them to last.

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Review

'A reflection on sex, power, money and emotions, Severe also emerges as an upsetting picture of a woman seeking absolution.' - Express

'A universal, fascinating epic story of an unusual love affair. Again, Jauffret explores the boundaries of fiction and reality.' - Inrockuptibles

'A radioactive diamond.' - Figaro

'Here everybody is guilty and a victim, manipulator and manipulated at the same time.' - Libération

'Timeless and infernal.' --Télérama

'The quality of Jauffret's language, which fluctuates between the precise and the poetic, ensures his writing never lapses into sensationalism. Severe is a dark, often brutal, but resoundingly subtle consideration of the dynamics between love, exploitation, sex and power.' --Russell Williams, The Independent on Sunday

About the Author

Born in Marseille in 1955, Régis Jauffret is a major French contemporary author. Salammbo Press has published Lacrimosa by Régis Jauffret, and will also be publishing Claustria.

About this edition

• Publisher: Salammbo Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0956808247
• ISBN 13: 9780956808240
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180