by Andrée Chedid · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080675514
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«Lucy: La femme verticale» is the narrative by Andrée Chedid, published by Flammarion in paperback (93 pages, in French).
The work imagines an encounter between Lucy, the famous three-million-year-old hominid, and present-day humanity. Her uprightness becomes a symbol of the adventure that opened the way for all humanity; from that face-to-face emerges a tragic and tender, violent and complicit fable about what separates us from and unites us with the other.
Published in 1998; the work is presented as a «récit». Catalogued as fiction about the hominid Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis).
For readers of French literature and narratives that engage with prehistory and the human condition.
Andrée Chedid, born Andrée Saab Khoury, was an Egyptian-French poet and novelist of Lebanese and Syrian descent. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards and was made a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour in 2009.
