Histoire d'une passion | Gisèle Halimi

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THE STORY OF A PASSION

Gisèle Halimi

Release date : 17/03/2011

Gisèle Halimi, an influential figure of French feminism, had always dreamed of having a little girl. In this, perhaps her most intimate work, she tells of her passion for her granddaughter, discovering an unsuspected element within herself.
Gisèle Halimi has told the painful story of her mother, Fritna, her fierce... Gisèle Halimi, an influential figure of French feminism, had always dreamed of having a little girl. In this, perhaps her most intimate work, she tells of her passion for her granddaughter, discovering an unsuspected element within herself.
Gisèle Halimi has told the painful story of her mother, Fritna, her fierce obstination to make her love her, her ultimate failure. She has told of her own frustration at never having had a daughter, one with whom she might have tested her commitment to feminism. For the unconventional attorney, the birth of her granddaughter, M, represented a fulfilment, an accomplishment, and a dazzling emotional attachment, the sudden emergence of “a girl's life in her life”. For the first time, she observed first-hand what “makes an individual of the feminine sex”. But beyond her feminist experiment and, for that matter, beyond reason, from wonder to astonishment, experiencing a new surge of youth, Gisèle Halimi developed an actual passion for the little girl she immediately nicknamed “Tahfouna”, the rose, the irresistible. “Mamie, we're in love!» the little girl exclaimed, returning her grandmother's love tenfold. Until the brutal and complete break dictated by the “parental authority” of the little girl's mother and father. With despair aggravated by incomprehension, Halimi was forced to «learn the art of no longer being a grandmother” and go on living. Finally, after three years of separation, the grandmother and the granddaughter were be able to see one another, both of them transformed. In this book that in many ways echoes her earlier work, Fritna, Gisèle Halimi tells of her totalitarian passion » for her granddaughter and confesses, through this no-pretense narrative, to the discovery of a part of herself she never imagined was there.

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