Title : The Reclining Ones - Jeanne Galzy - book

Summary :

After her first novel published in 1912, Jeanne Galzy was struck down by Pott's disease, a bone tuberculosis that forced her to remain bedridden, immobilized by a plaster cast. This tragedy inspired her to write Les couchés, which received the Prix Femina in 1923. The novel opens and closes in the spring, in a sanatorium in Berck, the Maison des Sables. Throughout the pages, the narrator evokes her long stay alongside the "lying ones," suffering like her from an illness that keeps them isolated from life. With stunning lucidity, the heroine describes these friendships formed through the ordeal. Accurate and poetic, Jeanne Galzy's writing offers us a timeless reflection on pain, the body, and the price of existence. What if these "half-lives" taught us to better grasp the poetry of the ephemeral?

• EAN: 9782073027092
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