La Mort, cette abstraction

by Catherine Cusset

« Ma mère aussi voulait me voir et ne pensait pas à la mort, cette abstraction. Nous étions toutes deux incapables d’imaginer les possibles conséquences. » Catherine Cusset

9 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 29, 2020

About the author

Catherine Cusset was born in Paris in 1963. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and agrégée in classics, she got a Ph.D in Paris and another one at Yale, and she taught 18th-century French literature at Yale for 12 years. She is the author of ten novels published by Gallimard between 1990 and 2013, among which En toute innocence, Le problème avec Jane (finalist for Medicis prize and Grand Prix littéraire des lectrices d’Elle 2000), La haine de la famille, Confessions d’une radine, Un brillant avenir (Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2008) and Indigo. She is translated into 15 languages. The Story of Jane was published by Simon and Shuster in 2001. After 20 years in the States, Catherine Cusset recently moved to London with her American husband and daughter.

Reviews

[Erwann · Rating 4 out of 5]

C’est mieux qu’Ernaux même si je trouve la balance ma vie est géniale/omg regardez quel contraste un peu maladroite par moments

[Anastasia · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5 !