Self Portrait in Green
Marie Ndiaye ; Jordan Stump (Oversetter)
Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them
out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou.
Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Les mer
Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Les mer
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Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them
out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou.
Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia.
Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia.
Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
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Utgitt:
2021
Forlag: Influx Press
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 96
ISBN: 9781910312896
Format: 20 x 13 cm
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Marie NDiaye met her father for the first time at age fifteen, two years before publishing her first novel. She is the recipient
of the Prix Femina and the first Black woman to win the Prix Goncourt, the latter being the highest honour a French writer
can receive. Longlisted for 2013 Man Booker International Prize, she is the author of a dozen plays and works of prose