Nathalie Léger discusses her new book, Le principe de Wellington, in Diacritik interview
The French writer, known for a spare and infrequent body of work, speaks to Diacritik about her latest title and the work of confession that precedes it.
Diacritik has published an interview with Nathalie Léger timed to her new book, Le principe de Wellington. The site frames the conversation around what it calls 'la préparation de l'aveu' — the preparation of a confession — as a way into Léger's method.
According to Diacritik, Léger's books are 'souvent minces mais toujours denses et profus' — often slim but always dense and abundant — and also rare: the site counts six titles in her output to date. The interview does not, in the material available, summarize the plot or themes of Le principe de Wellington beyond its title, and no publisher or publication date is given.
Léger has built a reputation in French letters on compact books that draw on biography, archive and personal history rather than conventional narrative. For readers who follow her at the pace she publishes — a handful of volumes over a long career — a new interview, let alone a new title, counts as an event in itself.
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