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La jeune Moabite : journal 2013-2016 / Gabriel Matzneff.
- Title
- La jeune Moabite : journal 2013-2016 / Gabriel Matzneff.
- Author
- Matzneff, Gabriel
- Publication
- [Paris] : Gallimard, [2017]
- copyright 2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ2673.A79 Z46 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 694 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- The books are written, the loves that inspire them have calmed down, Gabriel Matzneff, always quick to ignite like the tow, is bored. This calm life does not correspond to the idea of happiness. Admittedly, after having long ostracized him because of his manners deemed unorthodox, society awarded him in 2013 the Renaudot prize for an essay; in 2015, the Cazes prize for his ninth and last novel; but these late laurels, even if they please her, are not cures for melancholy. His desire for drunkenness calls for a much stronger liquor. On February 17, 2014, in a provincial town, a high school girl burst into her life. The following year, when she arrives in Paris, enrolls in college, they become lovers. She is nineteen, seventy-nine. This is the young Moabite Booz Victor Hugo. Their love will last only a few months, but they give Gabriel Matzneff joy, confidence in his power of seduction, taste of his destiny. These are years in which, taken incessantly, he travels a great deal, especially in Italy: Bordighera, Rome, Zagarolo, Trieste, Venice, Naples, escorted by his eternal companions: Horace, Galiani, Casanova, Schopenhauer, Byron. Adventure, ture, political reflections, a sum of observations on young girls, a very sure taste for the French language, a solar Christianity lived as the legacy of Apollo and Dionysus, dandyism elevated to the rank of philosophy : for Gabriel Matzneff, the diary is life at close range.--Page 4 of cover translated by Gallimard.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Diaries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9782072732676 (pbk.) :
- OCLC
- 1011679338
- SCSB-11357200
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library