Author: Marie Darrieussecq

Cites

• Knut Hamsun (1)
  • IN: Pig Tales (1990) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Then the knife plunges in. The farm-hand gives it two little shoves to push it through the thick skin, after which the long blade seems to melt through the neck fat as it sinks in up to the hilt. At first the boar doesn't understand a thing, he remains stretched out for a few seconds, thinking about it. Aha! Then he realizes he is being killed and utters strangled cries until he can scream no more.
    FROM: Benoni, (1908), Novel, Norway
• Marguerite Duras (1)
  • IN: Men (2013) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: We have to love men a lot. A lot, a lot. Love them a lot in order to love them. Otherwise it's impossible; we couldn't bear them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Josephine Baker (1)
  • IN: Men (2013) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Over the ocean, so they say, beneath the sky, and far away, there is a town of mystical renown and on the evening breeze beneath vast dark trees all my hope flees
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France