Catherine Cusset, portraits of women without make-up and without taboo

Writer Catherine Cusset in studio at RFI (November 2021).

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By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

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After a few years in Prague and London, Catherine Cusset moved to the United States where she taught and lived for twenty-five years.

She is the author of numerous novels including "The problem with Jane", the 2000 Readers of Elle Grand Prize, "La hate de la famille", "Confessions d'une radine", "Amours transversales", "A brilliant future" , Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2008, or “Indigo” and “The other we adored”.

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"Two women: Clarisse, ogre of life, great lover and passionate about Asia, has carried within her from the start a fault that announces disaster; Eve balances between reason and unreason, while developing a deep relationship with her husband. One lives in Paris, the other in New York, and unbeknownst to them, a mysterious bond unites them.

Through the interweaving of their destinies, this intense novel paints a fresco of an era, from the eighties to the present day, and questions the relationship of women to the body and desire, to love, to motherhood, to aging and happiness. " 

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BONUS: Unpublished extract and reading by the author around the theme “Literature and reality”.

BONUS Catherine Cusset from the novel read by the author

DISCOVER also the audio version of the novel.

Audio version of the novel © Gallimard / Listen to read

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