Albertine Sarrazin.
Profession: robber, prostitute, burglar, prisoner and novelist.
A CV that would make a Genet pale.
In 1960, apart from the author of
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
, writers did not write about prison.
Even Céline sticks to correspondence.
But not Sarrazin.
Having remained in the shadows for more than eight years, she is the first woman to talk about her conditions of detention.
She is the anti-Sagan.
A thug with a bourgeois air.
Double Ricard and cigarettes.
She's a little 1.48 m tall, a centimeter shorter than Nabokov's Lolita, brunette and short-sighted, lame after a four-story jump naked under a coat, in love with women by day and men by night...
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It is this extraordinary destiny that Patrick Besson recounts in
Albertine Sarrazin.
The fugitive
.
A well-chosen title for one who excelled in the art of fugue.
The author's prose is galloping, the sentences are short, impetuous as if he were chasing the indomitable.
Albertine is intrepid,
“in revolt since…
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