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Une année à Venise

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Venise, cité sinueuse, est un labyrinthe imprévisible.
Et Catherine Parrish, jeune New-Yorkaise angoissée par son mariage imminent, entend bien s'y perdre. Au prétexte d'une thèse en histoire de l'art, la voilà débarquée dans la Sérénissime, goûtant chaque ruelle, chaque canal, chaque campo reculé avec émerveillement. La découverte d'une synagogue secrète et oubliée, ainsi que la rencontre de Marco, gondolier tourmenté, vont l'initier aux arcanes de la ville jaillie de la mer, la forçant à sortir des sentiers touristiques et rebattus.
Ainsi que des routes trop balisées de sa propre existence...

352 pages, Paperback

First published April 12, 2012

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Lauren Elkin

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Lauren Elkin is a widely acclaimed Franco-American writer, critic, and translator. Her books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables, and forthcoming fiction and non-fiction by Constance Debré, Lola Lafon, and Colombe Schneck. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.

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January 12, 2018
Très bien si on s’intéresse à Venise, l’histoire en elle-même n’est pas tant réussie.
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June 7, 2020
Muito bom! Surpreendentemente profundo.
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August 22, 2021
J'ai l'impression d'avoir passé tout ce temps avec Catherine en immersion à Venise, grâce à une belle plume (et une bonne traduction).
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