Vacances: Die letzten großen Ferien

by Madeleine Bourdouxhe

152 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

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 la Recherche de Marie', was published in 1943. In the mid-1980s, however, Madeleine Bourdouxhe was rediscovered by the feminists, resulting in new editions and translations.

Reviews

[Jesse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man merkt, dass Roman nur ein Fragment geblieben ist, allein an der Figurenentwicklung. Trotzdem fand ich die Geschichte ungewöhnlich abwechslungsreich und gerade das Leitmotiv der Jugend als Ferien interessant.