{"id":318228,"date":"2023-10-05T16:26:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_professional&p=318228"},"modified":"2024-01-27T21:36:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:36:26","slug":"author-on-tour-marie-ndiaye","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-marie-ndiaye\/","title":{"rendered":"Author on Tour: Marie NDiaye"},"content":{"rendered":"

About Marie NDiaye<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Over a literary career that spans almost 40 years, novelist, playwright, and scenarist\u00a0Marie NDiaye<\/strong>\u00a0has carved herself a unique position amid the landscape of French literature. Her work has received France\u2019s highest literary distinctions, including the 2009 Prix Goncourt for\u00a0Three Strong Women<\/em> (trans. by\u00a0John Fletcher,\u00a0Knopf). Dedicated to aesthetics, musicality, and psychology, NDiaye looks \u201cfor the music in a sentence; the subtextual harmony emanating from a book of imagination that makes us feel that it could not have been written any other way.\u201d Literary critic Hugo Pradelle describes her as a writer \u201cof unique discomfort.\u201d In her latest book,\u00a0Vengeance is Mine<\/em>\u00a0(trans. by Jordan Stump, Knopf), she portrays a woman afflicted by failing memories and a tortured uncertainty about her past that threatens to become her undoing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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About Vengeance Is Mine<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

(trans. By Jordan Stump, Knopf, 2023)<\/p>\n

The heroine of Vengeance Is Mine<\/em> is Ma\u00eetre Susane, a quiet middle-aged lawyer living a modest existence in Bordeaux, known to all as a consummate and unflappable professional. But when Gilles Principaux shows up at her office asking her to defend his wife, who is accused of a horrific crime, Ma\u00eetre Susane begins to crack. She seems to remember having been alone with him in her youth for a significant event, one her mind obsesses over but can\u2019t quite reconstruct. Who is this Gilles Principaux? And why would he come to her, a run-of-the-mill lawyer, for such an important trial? Vengeance Is Mine<\/em> is a dreamlike portrait of a woman afflicted by failing memories and a tortured uncertainty about her own past that threatens to become her undoing.<\/p>\n

Vengeance is Mine<\/em> will be released in the United States in October 2023.<\/p>\n

Find more information here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Program<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Marie NDiaye will be on tour on the East Coast in October 2023.<\/p>\n

Her public program include:<\/p>\n