“Not everyone is lucky enough to have had an unhappy childhood.”
This is a formula that Gide would not have denied.
She is the father of Caroline Eliacheff.
The author uses it as a preamble to her latest book, a work at the confluence of essay and autobiography, where she combines her experience as a psychoanalyst and as a woman, to introduce us to the life of the Countess of Ségur .
Readers of
Sophie's Misfortunes
know that the mischievous little girl, queen of mischief, martyred by her stepmother, is her childish double.
His adventures left their mark on literature.
But not only.
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Mauriac adored her, Marguerite Yourcenar hated her.
The Countess of Ségur crystallizes many passions, because she is one of those writers that we often read as a child.
De Gaulle was one of them.
Simone de Beauvoir could have been part of it, but her mother had forbidden her.
More than a century after his death in 1874, the writer is still a popular author.
Its sales exceed…
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