Diego

by Marie Redonnet

Je ne suis plus en prison, j'ai quitt Tamza et je viens d'arriver en France. Mais l'angoisse est toujours au fond de moi. Je me rpte : "Je suis un homme libre". Je sais bien que ce n'est pas vrai. Je suis arriv en France sans visa. Je suis un clandestin. Je n'ai pas pass la douane. Je ne suis pas enregistr sur le territoire franais. Je suis libre tant que la police ne me demande pas mes papiers. Je ne peux pas vivre en France normalement. Je dois y vivre comme un clandestin.

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

About the author

Born in Paris in 1947, Redonnet taught for a number of years in a suburban lycée before deciding to pursue a writing career full time. Since her volume of poetry Le Mort & Cie appeared in 1985, she has published four novels, a novella, numerous short stories, and three dramatic works.

Redonnet's novels have been compared to those of Annie Ernaux, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Samuel Beckett. She has since acknowledged the crucial influence which Beckett's work has had upon her literary work. And yet she is also notably different from the great master of modern literature.