#RentreeLitteraire22 – Under her sharp pen, Virginia Woolf appears in all her facets: woman of letters overflowing with humor, unparalleled visionary, feminist ahead of time and genius thinker. Deploying her passion for Virginia Woolf over the pages, Geneviève Brisac fights at the same time the image of a frigid and depressive woman that sticks to the skin of the author of Mrs Dalloway.
By lifting the veil on her complex and fascinating personality, she helps us understand what makes her one of the greatest authors of the 20th century and a figure dubbed by feminist activists who knew how to recognize and seize her great modernity. .
To the friend of dark times offers us the necessary comfort in these troubled times by revealing the need for a figure such as Virginia Woolf, who, like Montaigne whom she loved so much, helps us to understand who we are and how to think regarding our fragility, our sorrows and make it beautiful.
Éditions Robert Laffont invites you to discover the first pages of Geneviève Brisac’s new novel:
Normalian and graduate of letters, Geneviève Brisac taught in Seine-Saint-Denis, before publishing her first novel Girls (Gallimard, 1987). Son roman Mother Hunt Weekend won the Prix Femina in 1996. Geneviève Brisac is the author of nineteen novels and essays, including Petite (the Olivier, 1994), A year with my father (L’Olivier, 2010) which received the Editors’ Prize, and Sisyphus is a woman (Olivier 2019).
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