Drowsing Seasons
Publisher
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Éditions Balland
Parution date
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2008
EAN
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9782350131191
Description
Endormeuses Saisons is a true confession and first novel by François Mauriac’s daughter Luce, in diary, notebook, and letter form. The author wrote the novel thirty years ago to tell the story of her passion for another man. She waited until after her husband’s death to publish it, now, at age eighty-nine.
The Rouviers have just moved to a small town where Pierre will take a new post in his career as a civil servant. His wife, Elisabeth, and their young child have followed. Here Elisabeth meets Marc Vermont, a handsome, middle-aged professor of literature. When they are first introduced, Elisabeth barely notices him, but he decides immediately that he’ll seduce her, as he does with all the other women he encounters. His wife won’t know anything about it, as she has been homebound in Villebois since the car accident that left her disabled.
The two are in for a surprise: Marc falls in love for perhaps the first time in his life; and Elisabeth is uncharacteristically overcome with passion. Unable to be together, unable to separate, they go on with life, substituting platonic love for their impossible physical desire. But even this must cease the day Marc’s wife discovers Elisabeth’s letters. Consumed by guilt, Marc decides to sacrifice his love for Elisabeth, and tries to forget her.
Unable to act, Marc reflects on his relationship with Elisabeth, and pours his feelings into long letters that he will never have the courage to send. . She pours hers into a diary and letters. Together the writings of these two star-crossed lovers make up the true story, rendered in novel form, of Luce Mauriac Le Ray.
Author
Mauriac Le Ray : Luce Mauriac Le Ray is eighty-nine years old. Written over three decades ago, Endormeuses saisons is her first novel.
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