Tragedienne. Intimidating. Fascinating. Tough. Often dressed in black, ”
writes novelist Anne Plantagenet about Maria Casares in her newly published book.
For Albert Camus, her feverish lover, she was
"my balance, the thickness of blood and dreams, the truth that nourishes me"
or even, drawn at random from their correspondence, her
"Finistère",
her
"desirable"
,
" The Unique ”
.
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Albert Camus and Maria Casarès: an incandescent connection
The Unique
is precisely the title that Anne Plantagenet chose for her work which redraws with flesh the figure of the actress a little forgotten today.
The one who resurfaces as a passionate woman thanks to the publication of her correspondence with the writer in 2017 (Gallimard) is today put back in its rightful place thanks to this biography which is devoured like a novel, a biography to revive the most ardent of theater actresses.
“The trigger was really for me this correspondence
, explains the novelist, who received us in the house of the actress in Alloue in Charente.
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