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"Beaucoup de fils ont écrit sur leur mère, sur l'amour ou bien la haine qu'ils se portaient mutuellement. Ce que j'entreprends est différent. Je me suis mis à envisager la mienne non comme ma mère, mais comme un personnage de roman. Une femme dont la vie fut riche, imprévue, mouvementée, dramatique. Un être humain ni plus ni moins mystérieux que tous ceux que nous croyons connaître. Quelqu'un qui vous inspire l'envie de dessiner un portrait et le plaisir de raconter une histoire. On trouvera peut-être ici une clé pour certains de mes romans, comme Le Palais d'Hiver ou Ciné-roman. Ici, la mère est peinte dans sa vérité, même s'il reste beaucoup à supposer, à imaginer, à inventer sur ce personnage toujours double : la mère et une inconnue." Roger Grenier.
176 pages, Pocket Book
First published October 1, 2006
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Roger Grenier
106 books6 followersRoger Grenier was a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He was Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique.
In his youth he lived in Pau, where his mother opened a shop selling glasses. During the war, Roger Grenier attended Gaston Bachelard's classes at the Sorbonne before actively participating in 1944 in the liberation of Paris. He joined Albert Camus in the newspaper "Combat" then in "France Soir". Journalist, he followed post-war trials which inspired his first essay in 1949 "Le Rôle d'accusé". Radio animator, writer for television and cinema, member of the Gallimard board, he is recipient of the "Grand prix de l'Académie française" awarded to him in 1985 for his whole work, more than thirty works at that moment, novels, including two best-sellers "Le Palais d'hiver" of 1965 and "Ciné-roman", Prix Femina in 1972, essays and memoirs. He is best known in the United States for his work "The Difficulty of Being a Dog" (Les larmes d'Ulysse), translated by Alice Kaplan. He is still writing and is a busy conference attendee, speaking about his works, literature, Gallimard, or his friends: Albert Camus and Brassaï.
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In his youth he lived in Pau, where his mother opened a shop selling glasses. During the war, Roger Grenier attended Gaston Bachelard's classes at the Sorbonne before actively participating in 1944 in the liberation of Paris. He joined Albert Camus in the newspaper "Combat" then in "France Soir". Journalist, he followed post-war trials which inspired his first essay in 1949 "Le Rôle d'accusé". Radio animator, writer for television and cinema, member of the Gallimard board, he is recipient of the "Grand prix de l'Académie française" awarded to him in 1985 for his whole work, more than thirty works at that moment, novels, including two best-sellers "Le Palais d'hiver" of 1965 and "Ciné-roman", Prix Femina in 1972, essays and memoirs. He is best known in the United States for his work "The Difficulty of Being a Dog" (Les larmes d'Ulysse), translated by Alice Kaplan. He is still writing and is a busy conference attendee, speaking about his works, literature, Gallimard, or his friends: Albert Camus and Brassaï.
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