Lecture
LOUISE ACKERMANN
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INTERPRETER: ISABELLE MENTRÉ
DIRECTION: CHRISTOPHE DAVID
Louise Ackermann has not gone down in posterity. And yet, a few astonished praises from Barbey d'Aurevilly and Léon Bloy, who are not known as impressionable critics, should have aroused the interest of future generations. An atheist poet affiliated with positivism, the radicalness of her verses has certainly suffered from the passage of time, but it is for her brief autobiography that we wanted to present her to the public. Indeed, this account, which resembles no other, presents us with a woman of fascinating complexity. And above all, a great writer whose mastery of style, reminiscent of Flaubert's Un cœur simple, keeps emotion at a distance and, paradoxically, offers us a moving work.
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