by Marie Darrieussecq · FOLIO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070409846
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«Naissance des fantômes» is the novel by Marie Darrieussecq, published by FOLIO in paperback (161 pages, in French).
The narrator recounts the disappearance of her husband, who goes out to buy bread and does not return. From that absence, the novel explores waiting, the disintegration of everyday life, and the appearance of ghosts that are not metaphors but figures of human anguish. Darrieussecq turns loss into an inner and bodily metamorphosis, far from classical psychological analysis.
The work is considered a milestone in the author's career, who had already attracted attention with her first novel, «Truismes».
Recommended for those seeking contemporary French literature with an original perspective on grief and absence.
Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst.
