by Jean-Philippe Toussaint · Les Editions de Minuit · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782707323224
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«La vérité sur Marie» is the novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback (224 pages, in French).
The action begins on a stormy, sweltering night when Marie and the narrator experience an intense love affair that is, at the same time, separate. The novel focuses on the portrait of Marie, a haute couture designer, and on the couple's relationship, with a meditation on distance, reality and imagination.
It is the third installment of the «Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte» series, originally published in 2009 and winner of the Prix Décembre; this edition includes «L'auteur, le narrateur et le pur-sang».
For readers of contemporary French fiction, especially those following the «Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte» series by Jean-Philippe Toussaint.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer 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 second volume of the « Cycle of Marie », a four-tome chronicle published over ten years and displaying the separation of Marie and her lover. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie, third volume of the cycle, won the Prix Décembre.
