Novel
Sans la miséricorde du Christ
Not translated into English
Héctor Bianciotti · 1985
Synopsis
A narrator who shared a few months of exile with Adélaïde Marèse, a schoolteacher from the southern continent, sets out to retrace the path of this woman who has recently died in Paris, according to the publisher's presentation as taken up by Bibliosurf. More witness than actor, he frequents a bistro in the district between the Porte Saint-Denis and the Porte Saint-Martin, with its prostitutes, its pimps and its tourists, whose drama echoes that of Adélaïde, according to the blog La viduité, which reads in it a novel of memory.
Context
Published by Gallimard in 1985, it is the first novel its author wrote in French, according to Livres Hebdo, and it received the Prix Femina the same year. Previously, he wrote in Spanish, and one of his books had received the Prix Médicis étranger in 1977, according to the same newspaper. He abandoned Spanish in 1982 (in 1983 according to Cadena 3). Ricardo Pochtar translated it into Spanish for Tusquets in 1987. Its author was, according to Cadena 3, the first Latin American to sit under the Cupola.
Who it is for
A novel written directly in French, in a polished prose, which proceeds through memories and reflections on language.
Prizes and reception
Prix Femina in 1985, according to Livres Hebdo; reissued by Gallimard in 2018.
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