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Perla
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Frédéric Brun
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Même en littérature, parfois, on ressent un besoin d’urgence. L’urgence de publier sans attendre Perla, ce texte calme et brûlant, premier livre de Frédéric Brun qui n’a rien d’urgent justement, ni de pressé ni de rapide. Il ne s’agit pas d’un roman, ni d’un journal ni encore d’une autofiction. C’est le livre d’un fils qui raconte l’histoire de sa mère Perla, déportée à Auschwitz, Perla qui se meurt cinquante ans plus tard, enfin apaisée. Entremêlant le passé et le présent de cette femme, décrivant et dénouant très minutieusement ses liens d’enfant, Frédéric Brun impose tout au long de son récit tant un personnage qu’un univers qui, parce qu’il ne ressemble à nul autre nous ressemble à tous. On comprend dès lors la fascination de l’auteur pour certains poètes du romantisme allemand, sa joie d’être père, la détresse infinie de Perla et ce drôle de couple, Frédéric et sa mère, qui ne parviendra jamais tout à fait à se séparer. « J’aurais toujours un cartable sur le dos, celui d’un enfant qui part à l’école de la vie. Tu le remplis encore. Une mère, en fait, cela ne meurt jamais. »

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Perla is the story of a woman who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and would ultimately die unable to extricate herself from its corrosive memory. It is told from the point of view of her son, who, not long after losing her, learns that he is about to become a father. These two events become the impetus for reconstructing Perla’s past and for understanding gestation, as he’s equally in the dark about what happened in his mother’s life and what is taking place in his wife’s womb. Strangely, at this time he finds himself drawn to the poets Novalis, Hölderlin, and Schlegel, and the painter Caspar David Friedrich—founders of German romanticism who strove to capture the spiritual essence of the world. With and through them, he seeks peace and grapples with the question: How could Germany produce both the purest poetry and the most complete barbarity? Winner of France’s Goncourt Prize for a first novel, Frédéric Brun’s semiautobiographical novel considers the seemingly irreconcilable multiplicities of life—past and present, personal and collective, self and other, life and death.  

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Carolina De Robertis
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A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.   Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still reeling from the abuses perpetrated by the deposed military dictatorship. Perla understands that her parents were on the wrong side of the conflict, but her love for her papá is unconditional. But when Perla is startled by an uninvited visitor, she begins a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life, and to make a wrenching decision about who she is, and who she will become.

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