Marie-Ève Lacasse, between two worlds
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
Marie-Ève Lacasse was born in Canada and has lived in Paris for fifteen years. After her first novel published in France "Peggy in the lighthouses", she has just published "Autobiography from abroad", a reflection in the form of autofiction on her links with her country of origin and her country of adoption and of belonging to one of the two worlds, or not.
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"I never understood this expression of" at home ", to feel good" at home ". In France, I am a foreigner; but I am a stranger wherever I go and I have unfortunately found no place or even any being with which I can glimpse a form of rest. The house, this much-hoped-for utopian place, is the books of others and perhaps a little mine. I invite the reader to enter this book as in my house, because it is here that I live, in a language which is mine. "
Since her arrival in France almost twenty years ago, Marie-Ève Lacasse has wondered about the reasons why she often felt "close by". It is through writing that she invests these margins, exploring her past and studying this universal feeling of strangeness in a sensitive way.
Vibrant tribute to literature, to its power of wonder and consolation, Autobiography of the stranger probes our interior territories and our links to beings who sometimes protect us, sometimes condemn us. (Presentation of Flammarion editions )
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