In addition to some of having been part of the literary season, these works convey the idea of transmission, of memory. Sometimes the little story joins the Big Story... Dazzling works that will not leave you indifferent. Good reading !
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Clara reads Proust, Stéphane Carlier, Gallimard editions - Prize of the Proustian Literary Circle
Claire is 23 years old. She is a hairdresser in a small provincial town where her life is ticking over the habits of her clients and gossips.
A day between a stranger. Fascinating for Clara. After he leaves, the young woman notices that the man has forgotten his book. A great classic since it is none other than The Swann by Marcel Proust. Intrigued, Clara immerses herself in a reading that fascinates her, opens her up to other emotions. She discovers love and jealousy there; slowness, wonder. Dazzled by the Proustian style, this book will change her life! Joyful!
Idea outing related to the book:
Immersion in the work of Marcel Proust in the hotel The Swann, a room with books. To discover at Paris : www.hotel-leswann.com
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When you listen to this song, Lola Lafon, Stock editions - Price December 2022
Amsterdam, August 18, 2021. Lola Lafon chooses to spend a night at the Anne Franck Museum. Ten o'clock, between 21 p.m. and 7 a.m. in this small apartment called the Annex where the young German Jew lived in hiding with her family and 4 friends for two years until their arrest on August 4, 1944. The place where she fought to write 4 hours a day her day. Alone in the heart of this empty space with the ghosts of the Francks, Lola Lafon is invaded by emotion. A disorder that also sends her back to the history of her own family. This striking emptiness of absence.
She observes the almost blank walls except for a few photos of a teenager in Anne's room. She imagines her revolt at being so young a prisoner of her dreams. The writer is then interested in everything that has been concealed from her work and romanticized for the cinema, such as her Jewishness, her share of irreverence too. Because the young girl was much more than a diarist. She left a real testimony thanks to her unique writing of her survival from isolation which was to end tragically in deportation.
A reading with an intense climate from which we come out overwhelmed!
Idea outing related to the book:
In the footsteps of Anne Frank in Amsterdam: www.annefrank.org
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The hand on the heart, Yves Harté, Cherche Midi editor
Toledo 2014. While the narrator is attending an exhibition on the artist El Greco, a mysterious painting, “The knight with his hand on his heart”, particularly catches his attention. This painting, he had already seen it for the first time at the Prado museum, in Madrid in the company of Pierre Veilletet who died in 2013. A brilliant journalist, a man who had built it, a guide. Strangely, the portrait bears a certain resemblance to the missing friend. Who is this Juan de Silva character whose name appears in the caption of the work? Yves Harté embarks on the traces of the origins of the gentleman through Spain.
Thus the investigation he leads is superimposed on the past with Pierre and his share of ambivalence; to his youth; to the void represented by the disappearance of this loved one.
Throughout the pages the author highlights a magnificent story of male friendship, nostalgia for a bygone past and the Great History at the court of Philip II. Magical !
Idea outing related to the book:
A small visit is essential to El Greco Museum of Fine Arts in Toledo: www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/mgreco/en/museo/mision.html
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Elsa Schiaparelli, the extravagant, Elisabeth de Feydeau, Flammarion editions
Born in 1890 in the splendor of the Palazzo Corsini in Rome, frequented by artists, little Elsa led a privileged childhood. However complexed by her physique which she considers ungrateful, she will not stop later wanting to underline the beauty of women with fantasy.
Having become an essential fashion designer in Paris, her overflowing imagination sticks to the surrealist movement of the 30s. The young woman will ask her friend Salvador Dali to design some of her models like the lobster dress in 1937. Then will follow branched creations eccentrics, and the famous compact in the shape of a telephone dial. Avant-garde, Schiap as she likes to be nicknamed shocks and she likes it madly.
Elisabeth de Feydeau takes us into the exhilarating whirlwind of the fabulous Elsa Schiaparelli through a fascinating biography. What a magnificent illustration at the “Shocking” exhibition which is being held until January 22 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs!
Idea outing related to the book:
In the wake of Elsa Schiaparelli at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris: https://madparis.fr/ExpoSchiaparelli
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Article written by Marie-Laure Vallée
