Anna Akhmatova, portrait

by Geneviève Brisac

176 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2024

About the author

Geneviève Brisac is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1996, for Week-end de chasse à la mère, a novel translated in English as Losing Eugenio (2000) and referred to in The New York Times as a "mildly compelling text." She also writes short stories and children's literature, and is a literary critic for Le Monde, and with Christophe Honoré she co-wrote the screenplay for Honoré's Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras pas Danser (2009). Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite (1994), in which she recounts her struggle with the disease.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anna Akhmatova <3 <3 Vraiment, c'est une belle synthèse de sa vie et de son œuvre, qui permet de mieux comprendre sa poésie et son destin. Ce n'est pas aussi émouvant que l'émission France Culture (Anna Alvaro dans le rôle de Akhmatova, c'est un pur bonheur) mais ça donne tout de suite envie de la (re)lire !