by Marie Darrieussecq · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782818039069
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Être ici est une splendeur» is the fictionalized biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq, published by P.O.L in paperback (151 pages, in French).
A fictionalized account of the life of German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, an artist almost unknown outside her country at the start of the twentieth century. The narrative follows her vocation for painting, her friendship with Rainer Maria Rilke, her stays in Paris and her ambivalent relationship with marriage, portraying a woman who put her art above everything else.
The work, published in 2016, is catalogued as a biography of women painters and is set in Germany. The cover reproduces a portrait of a woman with a bead necklace against a green background.
For readers interested in biographies of artists, in early twentieth-century painting and in the figure of Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst.
