Véronique Ovaldé writes her mother's confined life
In a new récit, the novelist portrays the violence that shaped her mother's marriage to a tyrannical husband, and imagines the other lives she might have led.
Véronique Ovaldé has published a récit titled "Vivre sans bonheur et n'en point dépérir," in which she recounts her mother's life under the rule of a domineering husband, according to Télérama. The book describes the violence that confined her mother and, alongside that account, imagines the alternative paths her life could have taken.
Télérama describes the result as a book that is both forceful and restrained, balancing submission and tenderness in its portrait of a woman whose destiny was shaped by someone else's authority.
No further detail on the book's publisher, length or release date is given in the available material.
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