Under a title à la Jean d'Ormesson,
Défaire l'amour,
hides a frail and sensual novel, the idyll of a young girl with a handsome boy who was married in Istanbul ten years ago.
The story is true, moreover the heroine bears the name of the author: Clarisse Gorokhoff, who is the official double of Anna Karina in
Pierrot le fou.
This story inaugurates the “Confessions” collection directed by Thibault de Montaigu under the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Vincent Bolloré.
In this Turkish remake of
Sentimental Education,
the dubious narrator compares herself to a stick of dynamite blowing up a couple.
Onur is
“the man I held myself back from loving”,
a French-speaking Istanbul resident who looks like a young Alain Delon.
Clarisse Gorokhoff's style was already out of place in her three previous novels:
De la bombe
(2017),
Casse-gueule
(2018) and
Les fillettes
(2019), where she transformed her mother's death into fiction, before her eyes, when she was 6 years old.
She took longer (four years) to write…
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