by Claude Pujade-Renaud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742769032
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«Le désert de la grâce» is the novel by Claude Pujade-Renaud published by Actes Sud in paperback (280 pages, in French).
The novel reconstructs the history of the Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs until its suppression in 1709, a symbol of independence against Louis XIV, the Jesuits and Rome. Françoise de Joncoux, «la Invisible», copies and saves the monastery's manuscripts and keeps the scattered community united; Marie-Catherine Racine searches for a manuscript by Jean Racine.
The novel was originally published in 2007 and the volume includes bibliographic references.
The work is aimed at readers of historical fiction interested in the France of Louis XIV and figures such as Pascal and Racine.
Claude Pujade-Renaud was a French writer, whose first novel Le Ventriloque appeared in 1978. She subsequently published over twenty novels, short-story and poetry collections, as well as combined creative works with long-time partner Daniel Zimmermann. She won the prix Goncourt des lycéens in 1994 for Belle mère, her novel on being a stepmother, and was a recipient of the French Writer's Guild Prize for her life's work.
