by Sebastien Japrisot · Aufbau-Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783746621173
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«Mathilde - Eine Grosse Liebe» is the romantic novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Aufbau-Verlag GmbH in paperback (318 pages, in German).
After World War I, Mathilde does not accept the disappearance of her fiancé, a soldier sentenced to death in 1917. For seven summers she searches for him, guided by a photograph and letters, advancing through a labyrinth of certainties and denials with tenacity and detective-like cunning. An intense love story told with sobriety.
Novel originally published in French as «Un long dimanche de fiançailles» (1991), translated into German by Christiane Landgrebe. This edition is from 2005 and won the Prix Interallié.
For readers of romantic and historical fiction set during World War I and for those coming from the film announced on the cover.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
