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Albertine Sarrazin

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Albertine Sarrazin


Born
in Algiers, Algeria
September 17, 1937

Died
July 10, 1967


Albertine Sarrazin (17 September 1937 — 10 July 1967) was a French author. She was best known for her semi-autobiographical novel L'Astragale.

Born in Algiers, Algeria, she was quickly abandoned and put in the care of the social services, being then christened Albertine Damien in honour of the saint of the day she was found on. She was then adopted by a family that moved her to Aix-en-Provence. Within that dysfunctional family, she was abused by a family member and constantly quarreling with them, which led to an intense distaste for authority that stayed with her the rest of her life.

Although she was intelligent and did well in her studies, Albertine's family sent her to a reformatory school in Marseille. She escaped to Paris where she sati
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Astragal

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The Runaway

3.81 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1965 — 34 editions
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La Traversière

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Nouvelles de prison

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Lettres et poèmes

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Le Times: Journal de Prison...

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Bibiche: Récits (Collection...

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Poèmes

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La Crèche; (suivi de) Le La...

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Journal de prison 1959

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“I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment is real and alive, I stretch it into eternity...”
Albertine Sarrazin, Astragal

“I am wounded and begging, and it's now I who offers herself and clings; people don't hold onto me at all, for I have nothing to give them but myself, myself naked, and it will take a lot of time and tenderness before some resource, some source springs up in me.”
Albertine Sarrazin, Astragal

“The houses are far away, the ground is under our feet like an island; invisible, victorious, birds are singing, it’s the memory and oblivion of everything, it’s St. John’s Eve. Our kiss is as harmonious as nature.”
Albertine Sarrazin, Astragal

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