Anne and Claire Berest, Nicole Baccaran, Marie-Elaine Lafon… They publish works paying tribute to a woman from their lineage. A study of a phenomenon that blends the intimate and the universal.
Writing about mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, distant ancestor, bringing them to life, passing on their memory or creating characters. many authors have tried this year to draw a real trend. Fiction, short stories, testimonials, biographies, come in all genres and tastes, sometimes with spectacular success, regardless of whether the women to whom these works are dedicated are famous or not. Some are really ordinary heroines, like Lydia Salveire’s mother. In do not Cry (Prix Goncourt, 2014), the author intertwines the memories of the Spanish liberal revolution of 1936, who was then a young woman full of hope, and the merciful face of Georges Bernanos against Francoism, to which she testified: The great graves under the moon. Others, on the contrary, are personalities such as Gabriel Buffett, Francis Picabia’s wife, Mistress of Marseilles…
Source: Le Figaro
