“All existence is a letter posted anonymously; mine has three stamps. Paris, London, Venice; fate fixed me there, often without my knowledge, but certainly not lightly.
» It is a safe bet that Lucien d'Azay was not very old when he discovered the incipit of
Venises
by Paul Morand;
and that he swore to himself that his work would one day resemble this letter posted anonymously from France, England and Italy.
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In the expression “
not lightly
”, the good Latinist that he is must have even heard an echo of Saint Augustine: “
Pondus meum, amor meus
”.
It is good that our passions, our loves and our attachments weigh us down, fix us somewhere.
Opener at Fenice
After going in search of Sunsiaré de Larcône, the novelist with whom Roger Nimier was killed on the Western highway in 1962, and having composed the portrait of the poet and feminist Mary “Perdita” Robinson, Lucien d 'Azay today celebrates the attractions of the most amiable Venetian women.
There is Giordana Cosulich, who loved…
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