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Marie s’appelait de Montalte, Marie de Montalte, Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte.

Marie, c’était son prénom, Marguerite, celui de sa grand-mère, de Montalte, le nom de son père (et Madeleine, je ne sais pas, elle ne l’avait pas volé, personne n’avait comme elle un tel talent lacrymal, ce don inné des larmes). Lorsque je l’ai connue, elle se faisait appeler Marie de Montalte, parfois seulement Montalte, sans la particule, ses amis et collaborateurs la surnommaient Mamo, que j’avais transformé en MoMA au moment de ses premières expositions d’art contemporain. Puis, j’avais laissé tomber MoMA, pour Marie, tout simplement Marie (tout ça pour ça).

MARIE MADELEINE MARGUERITE DE MONTALTE retrace quatre saisons de la vie de Marie : Faire l’amour, hiver ; Fuir, été ; La Vérité sur Marie, printemps-été ; Nue, automne-hiver.

704 pages, Paperback

Published October 12, 2017

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Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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Jean-Philippe Toussaint (born 29 November, 1957, Brussels) is a Belgian prose writer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir. The 2006 book La mélancolie de Zidane (Paris: Minuit, 2006) is a lyrical essay on the headbutt administered by the French football player Zinedine Zidane to the Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin. An English translation was published in 2007 in the British journal New Formations. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie won the prestigious Prix Décembre.

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