Madeleine Bourdouxhe

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Madeleine Bourdouxhe


Born
in Liège, Belgium
September 25, 1906

Died
April 17, 1996

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Madeleine Bourdouxhe moved from Liège to Paris in 1914 with her parents, where she lived for the duration of World War I. After returning to Brussels, she studied philosophy. In 1927 she married a mathematics teacher, Jacques Muller. The marriage lasted until his death in 1974. Her daughter was born the day the Germans invaded Belgium in May 1940. She fled with her husband to a small village near Bordeaux, but was forced by the government in exile to return to Brussels, and remained there, active in the Belgian Resistance.

After the war, she lived regularly in Paris and had contact with writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Raymond Queneau and Jean-Paul Sartre, and also with painters such as René Magritte and Paul Delvaux. Her last novel, 'A l
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“However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this understanding between their hands and material objects, they can never have more than an incomplete understanding of the world.”
Madeleine Bourdouxhe, À la recherche de Marie

“La vita non è una storia che si racconta. Tutt'al più, potrebbe essere una storia che si rappresenta...”
Madeleine Bourdouxhe, À la recherche de Marie

“In Marie non c'era né entusiasmo né odio né sconforto. E nemmeno indifferenza. Piuttosto una sorta di scontrosa serenità. Se aveva un desiderio, era quello di essere un uomo che cammina su una strada, dorme e mangia dove capita, si siede su un mucchio di sassi e taglia un pezzo di pane con un temperino. Se provava un piacere, era quello aspro e inusitato della disponibilità. Camminava con passo sicuro, gli occhi scintillanti e la testa alta - troppo alta. E la stagione dell'anno moriva troppo delicatamente per la stagione del cuore che, al ricordo di una notte, riceveva una folgorazione, una luce troppo cruda, quasi fredda.”
Madeleine Bourdouxhe, À la recherche de Marie

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