In his new case, the French writer solves his feelings, but this time it is a friend of friendship and his complexity that is in the center of attention.
In InherentAlice Ferney is studying men’s / female friendship, her sweets, its risks, its borders. Attractive columnist, Kirill meets Marianne, a stylist, one day when he comes to give an interview. One is single, the other bride and mother, but both are lively, Custic and immediately accompanied. The author of Grace and Lucky “Dérixby” their feelings and their history with gentleness and skill.
Madame Figaro: How Inherent He is your partner Love conversation ?
Alice Ferney.– When I finished it I saw it as a friendly conversation, and I thought Romantic conversationSeeing some kind of diptych at the same time. There was logic there. Love and friendship, Eros and Philia, are two wonderful ways to our applications. Twenty-five years apart, I wrote one and then on the other side. Somehow comparison is inevitable, and the title expresses it. In the company as in love. This text was born of pleasure I have to introduce myself, in IntimacyRelationships between young widow and his neighbor, which have never had a romantic relationship. I believe in friendship between a man and a woman, the subject is little in literature, and I think it’s important in our postal metro era.
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What was the concept of friendship?
Men / female friendship, the one who needs to be adjusted, should be what we can call “love version”. It involves excluding sexual desire, it is not solidarity or kind, which is not related to the same gender experience, it is not exceptional and leaves a place between the sexes. What is this alternative? You have to share something, lovers share their bodies, friends share something else that we can call their “total object”. I wanted to make this dialogue a novel material, tell not only the adventures that live in friends, but also a friendship adventure.
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What about his two main characters?
Marian and Kirill are above all the free people, professional and mental. They express the same interest in art and artistic work. This is the basis of their conversation, which at first was able to bring them closer. Because if you have to meet a friend, you also have to decide to meet again. And why do we want it or not? There is sometimes a mystery there.
What do we accept from his friends? Can a woman be a sedator friend? The company is less fragile than love.
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Which principles of Ingredients did you follow?
I started making the listing. What do we do together when you are friends? We talk to each other, we turn to, we advise ourselves, we comfort ourselves, we love each other, we say that he is a friend. What contributes to friendship, what makes it upset? What do we accept from his friends? Can a woman be a sedator friend? The company is less fragile than love.
His private collection
The art of joy, Golura Sapienza. “This Italian author is the courage and female intelligence.”
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The time of innocence, Edith Urakton. “Classic and proof that love is not a social connection.”
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How long, By Richard Powers: “World novel, who says what music brings to life.”
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Let it run Philip Roth. “The American writer tells how to deal with problems. Writing recreates life. “
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Source: Le Figaro
