Literature: Sylvie Germain, "brèves de solitude", a novel about loneliness

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Sylvie Germain.

Tadeusz Kluba

By: Pascal Paradou

30 mins

From confinement, Sylvie Germain drew a novel written in real time, in two months.

A gallery of characters: Stella, Madame Georges, Corentin, Anaïs, Joséphine and even Emir, whose common point is to live confined and whose solitude gradually turns into loneliness. 

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Sylvie Germain, French writer, philosopher.

Former pupil of Emmanuel Levinas.

Author of numerous books, including 

Le Livre des Nuits

in 1985 or

Magnus

(2005), awarded by Goncourt des lycéens 2005. 

His latest work, 

Brèves de solitude

has just been published by

Albin Michel

editions

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