He never mentions his real name.
So we won't reveal it here.
Mathieu Terence transformed an extraordinary woman he loved in secret for seven years into a novel character.
The Four Lives of a Love
are: the idyll in Sils Maria in 2011, the love in Duino in 2013, the reunion in Saint Petersburg in 2016 and the absence after the drowning of Ariane in 2017. The narrator is a broke writer.
He falls in love with a beautiful psychoanalyst who is ten years older than him.
She has two children and a companion who threatens to commit suicide if she leaves him.
So they love each other in secret.
Desperately.
Tragically.
They travel in the footsteps of their idol: Lou Andreas-Salomé.
Everywhere they make love, eyes open.
The book could have been called “Eyes Wide Open”.
This poignant passion, of a dark romanticism, recalls
Belle du Seigneur,
whose heroine bore the same first name.
The clandestine adventure has been denied, erased, obliterated by a terrible accident: Ariane died wanting...
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