Title : The Country - Marie Darrieussecq - book

Summary :

A woman returns home. She is a daughter, granddaughter, wife, mother, and sister. This last point is the place of secrets. This woman runs, moves, buys furniture and leaves others, settles down for a few months, and writes from time to time. The House of the Dead attracts her like a casino attracts a gambler, but her husband is against it, fortunately. It is a small country, charming and seaside, but whose funeral traditions are not designed to attract tourists, it must be admitted. A native country is a plot of land, it is also a uterine lining, it is a language, it is the memory of the dead, it is a history and a geography. It is a romance novel, and postcards. But does a country without a state exist? A country cut into pieces? And a pregnant woman with a political brain? With a very subtle humor, a seriousness and an almost scientific precision, Marie Darrieussecq allows us to experience the whole metaphysics of origins, the question of filiation, and delivers a perceptive analysis of the effects of solitude and uprooting.

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