Reine du réel - Lettre à Grisélidis Réal | Nancy Huston

Reine du réel - Lettre à Grisélidis Réal

EAN : 9782378911089

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 162

Size : 12 x 21 mm

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Queen of reality

Nancy Huston

Collection : Les Affranchis

Release date : 10/02/2022

A letter from Nancy Huston to the prostitute and writer Grisélidis Réal, highlighting the addressee’s accomplishments while also allowing the author to confess herself.
The crossed destinies of two sensitive and powerful women.

For the Robert Laffont imprint « the Freed », Nancy Huston writes a letter to a Swiss writer and prostitute whose life has been as rich as it has been unbelievable: Grisélidis Réal.
Brought up by an abusive mother in a rigid Calvinist household, the young Grisélidis seeks early on to leave her... For the Robert Laffont imprint « the Freed », Nancy Huston writes a letter to a Swiss writer and prostitute whose life has been as rich as it has been unbelievable: Grisélidis Réal.
Brought up by an abusive mother in a rigid Calvinist household, the young Grisélidis seeks early on to leave her native background behind.
She encounters men, some of them dangerous, and gives birth, amidst multiple miscarriages, to four children she gives up for adoption. With two of them, she flees to Germany in company of a schizophrenic Afro-American who beats her and forces her into prostitution. The start of a new, hard but exciting chapter of her life: a new love, dope dealing and the pleasure of a life at the margin of society…until it all ends badly with her being incarcerated for several months, then thrown out of the country.
Writing literature and fighting for the rights of prostitutes will be the purposes which end up saving her life. Fascinated by this magnificent and courageous poet, albeit several differences, Nancy Huston finds a lot of her own existence reflected in this liberated, rebellious and touching figure. Their two writing styles seem to complement each other. Throughout the pages, in sudden revelations, Nancy Huston bares her soul like never before.
This letter resonating with admiration is a true testament to one of the great artists of the late 20th century whose modern way of thinking placed her at the avant-garde of contemporary debates about art.
A resolutely feminist text and a powerful exploration of the feminine body as a privileged connection to the world.

Key points
Nancy Huston is the perfect match for the Laffont imprint « The Freed » which already has published works by Annie Ernaux and Linda Lê.
Grisélidis Réal, a true artist, is not only a riveting subject but is also about to become an event in the art world with her poetic works about to being published by Seghers and an exhibition in the making that will present her other works of art (video, photo, paintings etc; )
The riveting story of a life where art arises out of poverty, sex and death in an attempt to keep these destructive forces at bay.
The epistolary genre allows the author to unveil some unknown aspects and moments of her own existence which she does with confounding honesty.
A courageous book that takes on contemporary subjects like the body of a woman and the place of women in society as well as the taboo subject of prostitution. How is it treated in our society? How to accompany or to fight it ?
Strong opinions expressed with conviction that encourages reflection
An incandescent work which leaves, by its subject as well as through its writing, an indelible impression that resonates for a long time.

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Voir la fiche produit

EAN : 9782378911089

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 162

Size : 12 x 21 mm