Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq ( born January 3, 1969 in Bayonne ) is a French writer. Direct their first release Truismes ( German title: mess ) became a bestseller. There followed a number of other novels and literature scene, she was considered a charming petit monstre.

Life

Her father works as a technician. Her mother works as a professor of French literature. Therefore, she won great interest in literature already in early childhood. She grew up in a small town near Bayonne and enjoyed due to the activities of its parent access to a variety of literary works and books. So she learned at the age of six years reading and writing.

She studied literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and graduated in 1986 from the bac des lettres. From 1988 to 1990 she dedicated to the interpretation of the works of Roland Barthes in Bordeaux. She then taught for several years at the Université de Lille III courses on Stendhal and Proust. In 1997 she received her doctorate at the University of Paris with the work " Car Fiction et irony tragique chez Georges Perec, Michel Leiris, Serge Doubrovsky, Hervé Guibert ," and turned away in the same year of her work at the university to completely writing to devote.

In 1997 she married a mathematician, divorced from the latter in the same year. In 2000, she married again. With her husband, an astrophysicist, she has two children. Her son was born in 2001, her daughter in 2004.

Work

Marie Darrieussecq began early to write. But the first five novels she wrote, she felt as not worthy to be published. To date, these works are unknown. And in 1996 she wrote to various publishers with a request for publication of their work Truismes.

She was known by her first published novel mess that appeared in Germany in 1997. There she describes the interior monologue of a young unemployed woman who takes a job at a massage parlor and slowly transformed as a prostitute in a sow due to their activities there.

In addition to the novel mess their works are seeing ghosts and the baby the only ones that have been translated into the German language.

Writing style

Compared Truismes is her work with a number of famous authors ". , This prime example of literary ready-made in Ringelreigen with Circe, Homer, Ovid, Kafka or Ionesco, just because in which beetles, rhinoceroses, owls or just pigs occur "

Several reviews describe Truismes as Kafkaesque.

She says of her work, it was " a metaphor of our world, which is also a nowadays still " pure mess " is. "

Marie Darrieussecq 's works can often be difficult to assign a single species or variety of the novel. In many works her an autobiographical background is said. For example, the book was the baby after the birth of her son in 2001. Already in her first novel Truismes puzzled critics whether there was a political background or whether we are dealing with female self-discovery.

Your writing style changes from plant to plant. What, however, in almost all books remains the same, is the narrative perspective. Marie Darrieussecq very often writes in the form of the narrator.

In Truismes the protagonist describes at the outset that they will tell their life story, so writes down her memoirs. About two pages, this would require little introduction, then the description of the way the woman begins to sow. Truismes remains the only work of Darrieusscq, which deals with the theme of " transformation " in the literal sense. There are no chapter divisions and the factory covers in the original French edition of 1996 160 pages.

The baby is divided into 192 pages in two chapters. One part is called the spring, summer, and the other summer, autumn. Your writing style is interpreted as a loose form of a diary. A mother told from the first-person perspective, as she wraps her child, feeds and takes in the arm. At the beginning of the work the mother of the happiest man seems to be on Earth. It deals only with the child. From friends or even the father is little told. Later, when the baby is older, the euphoria of the mother seems to wane and it is described to be like a child but exhausting and that could annoy it.

Her novel White is attributed to the more adventurous novel and the romance novel. Marie Darrieussecq told in its original edition to 224 pages by a man named Peter Tomson and a woman named Edmée Blanco, who reside at the South Pole cold and you need to keep their love for each other secret. The book's title is the name of the project, around which it rotates in her work. In this novel, Marie Darrieussecq writes in short, concise sentences and does not write this time in the I - form, but describes the journey of the two protagonists to the South Pole and the path that lies there before them. In this novel, it deals with the theme of isolation from the world and of individualism.

In Le Pays Marie Darrieussecq reported on 304 pages of a couple. The woman is pregnant and they want to move away from Paris. The couple moved it to the country where the woman originally came from. There, the woman can pass their family history revue. She thinks of her parents, who no longer live together. Her mother remarried, and her father lives in a small Karavan and her brother is dead, the life in the country can find the woman back to yourself. Criticism of La Croix summarizes the contents in the few words: " Avec Le pays, Marie Darrieussecq retrouve la terre de ses ancêtres. " This book is written from two narrative perspectives. On the one hand is the inner voice of the woman again and again their thoughts and feelings again and on the other there is then the omniscient narrator.

In the book Péronnille la chevalière, the Marie Darrieussecq wrote with Nelly Blumenthal, is a 32-page thin children's book. The story begins with the words: " There once was a little girl ..." The protagonist is called Péronnille and she is very strong, very pretty and also very smart. As a knight battling against the evil.

Twice already Marie Darrieussecq was accused of plagiarism. The first time in 1998 by Marie NDiaye. Darrieussecq had committed " mental theft " in her work Naissances of fantômes. The second time in 2007 by Camille Laurens, in which she is said to have copied content for Tom est mort. Laurens processed at its plant Philippe the loss of her son and accused Darrieussecq this very subject to written close to their own work to have. Tom est mort and Philippe were conspicuously similar in many respects.

In her latest, comprehensive 324 pages work Rapport de police, Accusations de plagiarism et autres modes de surveillance de la fiction of 2010, I will discuss the concept of plagiarism. It deals with similar cases - famous authors to whom the accusation of plagiarism was made. It also deals with the question of the role assumed by the plagiarism in the literature and the history of literature. She herself finds it normal that overlap some sentences or parts of a book with another book. It was, of course, that some authors have the same ideas and write them.

Prizes and awards

In 1988, Marie Darrieussecq was awarded the Prix des jeunes écrivains ( prix littéraire du journal Le Monde).

1996 Marie Darrieussecq was nominated for her work Truismes for the Prix Goncourt and could be among the finalists. Moreover, their first release for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been proposed. The film rights for Truismes Jean- Luc Godard secured.

For Tom est mort Darrieussecq was nominated for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Femina.

2013, it receives Il faut beaucoup for the novel aimer les hommes the Prix Médicis.

Published Books

  • Truismes (1996) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 2-86744-527-2; German title: mess (1997)
  • Naissance of fantômes (1998) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 2-86744-613-9; German title: see ghosts (1999)
  • Le mal de mer (1999) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 2-86744-685-6.
  • Claire dans la forêt (2000) Editeur ELLE, ISBN 2-7210-0491-3.
  • Bref sejour chez les suivants (2001) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 2-86744-844-1
  • Breathing Under Water ( 2002) Faber & Faber, London, ISBN 0-571-20914-9.
  • Le bébé (2002) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 2-86744-874-3; German Title: The Baby ( 2004)
  • Illusion ( 2003) Filigranes Editions, ISBN 2-914381-49-2.
  • White ( 2005) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 2-86744-962-6.
  • Le Pays (2005) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 2-84682-085-6.
  • Naissances: Récits in cooperation with Hélèna Villovitch, Agnès Desarthe, Marie Desplechin, Camille Laurens, Geneviève Brisac, Catherine Cusset et Michèle Fitoussi (2005) L' iconoclaste, ISBN 978-2-7578-0357-8.
  • Zoo ( 2006) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 2-84682-134-8.
  • Tom est mort (2007) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 978-2-84682-209-1.
  • Mrs Ombrella et les musées du desert (2008) Editeur Scali, ISBN 978-2-35012-125-3.
  • Precisions sur les vagues (2008) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 978-2-84682-263-3.
  • Tristes Pontiques, traduction d'un texte d' Ovide (2008), POL Verlag, ISBN 978-2-84682-282-4.
  • Péronnille la chevalière in collaboration with Nelly Blumenthal (2009) Albin Michel Jeunesse, ISBN 978-2-226-18940-0.
  • Le Musée de la mer (2009) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 978-2-84682-330-2.
  • Rapport de police (2010) P.O.L. Verlag, ISBN 978-2-84682-331-9.
  • Clèves (2011) P.O.L. Princesses. From the French by Patricia Klobusiczky. Hanser, Munich 2013
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