Der letzte Schlaf der Liebenden

by Jacqueline Harpman

Der letzte Schlaf der Liebenden - bk1123; Aufbau Verlag; Jaqueline Harpman; pocket_book; 2005

Genres: France

316 pages, Hardcover

First published March 6, 2002

About the author

Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929. Being half Jewish, the family moved to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and returned home after the war. After studying French literature she started training to be a doctor, but could not complete her medical studies when she contracted tuberculosis. She turned to writing in 1954 and her first work was published in 1958. In 1980 she qualified as a psychoanalyst. She had given up writing after her fourth book was published, and resumed her career as a novelist only some twenty years later. She wrote twelve novels and won several literary prizes, most recently the Médicis for the present novel. She was married to an architect and had two children.

Reviews

[Leonie Mylle]

4,5

[ʕ⁎̯͡⁎ʔ༄ · Rating 5 out of 5]

fantastique, encore un sans-faute de la part de harpman

elle sait si bien définir ce qu’elle comprend de l’amour, c’est si poétique, et forcément émouvant - tout en mettant l’accent sur ses dérives et ses difficultés

[dadouz · Rating 5 out of 5]

🤍

sublime, je suis époustouflée par l’écriture de harpman, aussi poétique qu’addictive, par la puissance du récit, par la force de ses personnages, par cette histoire d’amour mais aussi par toutes les thématiques abordées dans l’histoire (le contexte historique, la guerre, la quête d’émancipation)
maria et girolamo vont terriblement me manquer

[July Brozek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Une improbable belle histoire d'amour

[Florence · Rating 5 out of 5]

J'ai déjà lu ce livre il y a quelques années, le seconde lecture est tout aussi ensorcelante. Jacqueline Harpman reste une des meilleurs!