by Marie Darrieussecq · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782867446139
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«Naissance des fantômes» is the novel by Marie Darrieussecq, published by P.O.L. in paperback (157 pages, in French).
The narrative begins when the protagonist recounts the disappearance of her husband: one afternoon, after coming home from work, he asks her if she has bought bread and then he is no longer there. From that absence, the novel follows the waiting and bewilderment of a woman trying to understand how everyday life fills with voids and unanswered questions.
It was first published in 1998 in Paris. The subtitle of the work is «roman» and it belongs to French literary fiction.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in psychological novels about disappearance and the couple.
Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst.
