This book is centered on the fate of a woman torn between the necessity of writing and the desire to live. In 1819, aged thirty-three and married to the actor Prosper Valmore, whom she loves, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore meets Henri de Latouche, an influential man of letters. Their affair will last...
This book is centered on the fate of a woman torn between the necessity of writing and the desire to live. In 1819, aged thirty-three and married to the actor Prosper Valmore, whom she loves, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore meets Henri de Latouche, an influential man of letters. Their affair will last only a year, twelve months of an impossible passion, that brightens and transfigures an entire life. Her story is one of agonizing duality, symbolized on one side by her love for Valmore, on the other by her passion for Latouche. Reinventing it with true novelistic talent, Anne Plantagenêt offers us a very personal "imaginary biography" of this poet whose life and work are worth rediscovering, and a fine novel on writing and love, in total communion with her heroine.