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Catherine Lépront (June 1951, Le Creusot – 19 August 2012) was a French novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist.

Biography

Catherine Lépront was born into a family of doctors and musicians. First of all a liberal nurse (an experience which she described in her narrative Des gens du monde), she was a playwright and literary advisor for the Éditions Gallimard. Her novels intertwine intimate and family history and political history. The memory of the Second World War, the Indochina War, the Algerian War, the colonial tragedies and those of the totalitarian world haunt her characters on which she looks with empathy and tender irony. All her work is marked by a profound criticism of bourgeois hypocrisy, arbitrary power and obtuse conformity. She excels at reproducing oral speech, while deepening the subtleties of inner reflections, intrigues with acute psychological tensions, and creating a poetic and lyrical climate that reminds of Virginia Woolf and some Russian writers. Music, painting, and artistic creation in general played a decisive role here.

Her second husband was the Germanic philosopher Marc de Launay [fr].

Works

- Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle 1992
- Prix Louis-Guilloux 2004
  • 2003: Judith et Holopherne, with Marc de Launay and Laura Weigert, Éditions Desclée de Brouwer [fr], coll. "Triptyque", 122 p. ISBN 2-220-05077-7
  • 2005: Transactions infinies, followed by Invitation à la pleine lune, Arles, Actes Sud, coll. "Papiers", 94 p. ISBN 2-7427-5711-2
  • 2005: Ces lèvres qui remuent, Éditions du Seuil, 342 p. ISBN 2-02-078773-3
  • 2006: Amparo, Paris, Éditions Inventaire/Invention, coll. "En passant", 57 p. ISBN 2-914412-53-3
  • 2007: Esther Mésopotamie, Éditions du Seuil, 212 p. ISBN 978-2-02-086377-3
  • 2006: Entre le silence et l'œuvre, Éditions du Seuil, coll. "Réflexion", 343 p. ISBN 978-2-02-091032-3
  • 2008: Ingres, ombres permanentes : belles feuilles du Musée Ingres de Montauban, exposition, Montauban, Musée Ingres, 21 March–29 June 2008 and Paris, Musée de la vie romantique, 16 September 2008 – 4 January 2009], catalogue, Paris, Le Passage, coll. "Carte blanche", 157 p. ISBN 978-2-84742-114-9
  • 2008: Disparition d'un chien, Éditions du Seuil, 375 p. ISBN 978-2-02-098050-0
  • 2010: Le Beau Visage de l'ennemi, Éditions du Seuil, 232 p. ISBN 978-2-02-101962-9
  • 2012: L'Anglaise, Éditions du Seuil, 257 p. ISBN 978-2-02-106042-3

References

  1. Sabine Aaudrerie. "Catherine Lépront, L'empreinte des rapports humains". Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  2. "Vidéo Ina - Catherine Lépront : Ses lèvres qui remuent, vidéo Catherine Lépront : Ses lèvres qui remuent, vidéo Art et Culture Littérature - Archives vidéos Art et Culture Littérature : Ina.fr". Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  3. "Le Beau Visage de l'ennemi". Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  4. Adrien Aszerman. "L'Anglaise, Catherine Lépront". Retrieved 28 November 2016.
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