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Line Papin, her possible life

2022-04-24T16:21:41.910Z


PORTRAIT – In her fifth book, the 26-year-old novelist, author of "Girls' Bones", evokes in a very personal story the decision to "give birth or not give birth".


“A century earlier, I would have been an original: a woman, in a room, alone, without children, a woman who writes”,

can we read under the pen of Line Papin, novelist of 26

years who has just published his fifth book, entitled

Une vie possible

(Stock).

In our time, which also likes to put people in boxes, Line Papin was first, roughly in that order, the literary revelation to follow (she wrote her first novel at 19), the possibility of being "the new Marguerite Duras" (this novel recounted the love affairs of a quartet of friends in the moist and exotic Hanoi of her childhood) and finally the very young wife of the singer and actor Marc Lavoine, from whom she has just divorced.

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Today, Line Papin affirms it in her soft but assertive voice:

“I was blocked by this image of a 'young first-time novelist'.

During TV sets, I did not speak, I was surrounded by men.

I didn't dare to say no, I was blocking myself.

Become aware of this posture that we have...

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Source: lefigaro

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