Simon Liberati
Simon Liberati est l’auteur d'une dizaine de livres, dont Jayne Mansfield 1967, prix Femina 2011, et Eva (Stock, 2015), qui a reçu un exceptionnel accueil de la critique et des libraires. Son...
EVA
Auteur
Parution :
19/08/2015
Collection :
La Bleue
EVA
Under option in Italy
“One winter’s evening in 1979, somewhere in Paris, I came across a thirteen-year-old ‘woman’ who already had a terrible reputation. Twenty-five years later she inspired my first novel, even though I knew nothing more about her than a paparazzi photo. Much later still she happened to find me when I was lost in the meanders of life. And she, this little fairy who popped up from a shady underworld, saved me from the labyrinth and gave me the urge to love again.
Unbelievably, her name is Eva, this book is a testament to her.”
SL
When the narrator meets Eva he sees in her a siren, an adorable monster, a soul-sister, a unicorn dressed up for show, an sensual schoolgirl, a de Sade Justine and an old-fashioned child. If she’s so many women at once, isn’t that precisely because her childhood ended in front of her own mother’s eyes? Her mother, the photographer Irina Ionesco who photographed her naked aged six or seven.
They’d both lost hope of it, but a quirk of fate brought them together in midlife… and together they would discover wild love.
A novel reminiscent of André Breton’s Nadja, Lewis Carroll stories and Nerval’s work.
Simon Liberati is the author of five books, among them: Anthologie des apparitions (2004) and Jayne Mansfield 1967, winner of the 2011 Prix Femina.
Under option in Italy
“One winter’s evening in 1979, somewhere in Paris, I came across a thirteen-year-old ‘woman’ who already had a terrible reputation. Twenty-five years later she inspired my first novel, even though I knew nothing more about her than a paparazzi photo. Much later still she happened to find me when I was lost in the meanders of life. And she, this little fairy who popped up from a shady underworld, saved me from the labyrinth and gave me the urge to love again.
Unbelievably, her name is Eva, this book is a testament to her.”
SL
When the narrator meets Eva he sees in her a siren, an adorable monster, a soul-sister, a unicorn dressed up for show, an sensual schoolgirl, a de Sade Justine and an old-fashioned child. If she’s so many women at once, isn’t that precisely because her childhood ended in front of her own mother’s eyes? Her mother, the photographer Irina Ionesco who photographed her naked aged six or seven.
They’d both lost hope of it, but a quirk of fate brought them together in midlife… and together they would discover wild love.
A novel reminiscent of André Breton’s Nadja, Lewis Carroll stories and Nerval’s work.
Simon Liberati is the author of five books, among them: Anthologie des apparitions (2004) and Jayne Mansfield 1967, winner of the 2011 Prix Femina.
Un soir de l’hiver 1979, quelque part dans Paris, j’ai croisé une femme de treize ans dont la réputation était alors « terrible ».
Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, elle m’inspira mon premier roman sans que je ne sache plus rien d’elle qu’une photo de aparazzi. Bien plus tard encore, c’est elle qui me retrouva à un détour de ma vie où je m’étais égaré.
C’est elle la petite fée surgie de l’arrière monde qui m’a sauvé du labyrinthe et redonné une dernière fois l’élan d’aimer.
Par extraordinaire elle s’appelle Eva, ce livre est son éloge.
Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, elle m’inspira mon premier roman sans que je ne sache plus rien d’elle qu’une photo de aparazzi. Bien plus tard encore, c’est elle qui me retrouva à un détour de ma vie où je m’étais égaré.
C’est elle la petite fée surgie de l’arrière monde qui m’a sauvé du labyrinthe et redonné une dernière fois l’élan d’aimer.
Par extraordinaire elle s’appelle Eva, ce livre est son éloge.
Simon Liberati
288 pages
Format :
135 x 215 mm
EAN :
9782234077294
Prix :
23.00 €
