A L Attention De La Femme De Menage
Emilie Desvaux
Product Description C?est une belle demeure de campagne, au milieu d?un parc arbor, pleine d?escaliers, d?enfilades de pices et de mobilier lgant. C?est une maison peuple de souvenirs, de fantmes et de rveries o vivent deux femmes. L?une est veuve depuis quelques mois. Elle s?installe souvent dans le salon d?hiver, pour lire, silencieuse et pensive. L?autre, c?est Marie-Jeanne, une jeune fille vive et dsordonne, infiniment sensuelle. Sans attaches, elle a surgi un jour pour qu?on s?occupe d?elle et n?est jamais repartie.Les deux femmes se sont prises, mais, au fil de quelques saisons, la veuve supporte de moins en moins la prsence de Marie-Jeanne, ses longs bains mystrieux, son amour inconditionnel, et se fait plus cruelle. Se glissent dans ses songes l?ombre de sa mre, dure et sche, et celle de son pre, qui lui racontait le mythe ensorcelant des sirnes. S?immisce en elle le dsir de dtruire cet amour finissant ou de le transformer en autre chose.ÿEn arrire de l?histoire de ces femmes, et comme confondue avec la maison, la femme de mnage passe telle une ombre. Elle est la dpositaire de leurs secrets. Le tmoin de leur amour trouble et de leur trange mtamorphose.Semblable un conte ou une lgende, une rverie baroque, ? l?attention de la femme de mnage est un premier roman singulier dont les images et la langue enchantent.
It’s a beautiful country house, in the middle of a wooded park, full of staircases, rows of rooms, and elegant furniture. It’s a house populated by memories, ghosts, and reveries where two women live. One has been a widow for a few months. She often sits in the winter living room to read, silent and pensive. The other is Marie-Jeanne, a lively and disorderly young girl, infinitely sensual. Unattached, she appeared one day to be taken care of and never left. The two women fell in love, but, over the course of a few seasons, the widow becomes less and less able to bear Marie-Jeanne’s presence, her long mysterious baths, her unconditional love, and becomes more cruel. The shadow of her mother, hard and dry, and that of her father, who told her the bewitching myth of the sirens, slip into her dreams. The desire to destroy this dying love or to transform it into something else creeps into her. Behind the story of these women, and as if merged with the house, the cleaning woman passes like a shadow. She is the repository of their secrets. The witness of their troubled love and their strange metamorphosis. Similar to a tale or a legend, to a baroque reverie, For the attention of the cleaning woman is a singular first novel whose images and language enchant
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| ISBN: 9782234069459 |
| Genre: Fiction |
| Subject: Lesbianism – Fiction; Women Household Employees – Fiction |
| Publication Date: 2011-01-12 |
| Publisher: STOCK |
| Language: French |
| Format: Paperback |
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| Book_ID: 257307 |
