Marie Ndiaye, the opacity of human relationships in "La vengeance m'appartient"
Audio 29:00
Marie Ndiaye.
© F. Mantovani Gallimard
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
For this twelfth novel, winner of the 2009 Goncourt Prize for “Three Powerful Women”, Marie Ndiaye explores the opacity of human relationships. Maitre Suzanne is a lawyer in Bordeaux.
One day, she receives a visit from Gilles Principaux, whom she thinks she knew when she was a child.
He asks him to take the defense of his wife, infanticide of their three children.
Publicity
Guest:
Marie Ndiaye, author of
La Vengeance m'appartient (Éditions Gallimard)
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
Literature
Culture
On the same subject
By voice (s)
Royan: the return to the theater of Marie Ndiaye
Literature Without Borders
French novelist Marie Ndiaye
Culture
Marie NDiaye embraces the opera with "Te fear in your absence"