Celina

Écrivain: Catherine Axelrad

Éditeur: Les Fugitives

Code article: 790322

16,20 €

Quantité:

Disponible

Frais de livraison gratuits pour les commandes de plus 25€ en Grèce

Vous n'avez pas trouvé le livre que vous cherchiez?

Contactez-nous pour plus d'informations: to@lexikopoleio.com

In the late 1850s, Celina, aged fifteen, born into poverty, takes up work as a chambermaid for the Victor Hugo family living in exile in Guernsey. There she encounters the delicate balance between the professional and the personal, and the obligations placed upon her as her livelihood is at stake. Inspired by Hugo's cryptic diary notes and by letters from his wife, Catherine Axelrad restores to life the girl whose untimely death shook the Hugo family, capturing the changing time in which she lived as well as life in the Channel Islands.

In doing so, Axelrad sheds light on the complexity of Hugo's private persona and cuts le grand homme down to size. Intimately involved with him, Celina remains at the margins of the poet's creative life; she recounts her relationship both with the artist who is writing his Miserables by day and with the man who joins her at night. First published by Editions Gallimard in 1997, this novella offers a singular perspective on matters of sexual consent and class dynamics: one which makes us take stock of social progress, but also wonder how far we have really come today.

Attributs

ISBN: 9781739778378
Date de parution: 2024
Pages: 146

Celina

Vous n'avez pas trouvé le livre que vous cherchiez?

E-shop