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La Dentellière (Vermeer)
''La Dentellière'' ("The Lacemaker") is a French novel by Pascal Lainé. It was awarded the Prix Goncourt (France's most prestigious literary award) in 1974. It was made into The Lacemaker, a film with Isabelle Huppert in 1977 (directed by Claude Goretta). It was translated into English by George Crowther (translator), George Crowther in 1976 as ''A Web of Lace'' and in 2006 by David Dugan. An excerpt of the 2006 translation appeared in the literary journal The Dirty Goat in 2008. In simple, precise language, Pascal Lainé paints his character's portrait in her original setting: "She was like one of those genre paintings where the subject is captured in mid-movement. Her way, for example, of pursing hairpins in her lips as she redid her hair bun! She was The Laundress, The Water Girl, or The Lacemaker." Plot Apple's story begins in a village in northern France. Her father has left and her mother works both as a barmaid and prostitute and they live in a noisy roadside apa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Lainé
Pascal Lainé (10 May 1942 – 30 December 2024) was a French academic, novelist and writer. He was born in Anet, Eure-et-Loir. He was awarded both the Prix Médicis (1971 for ''l'Irrévolution'') and the Goncourt (1974 for '' La Dentellière''), Pascal Lainé has published over 20 novels and has written for television, theatre, and film. Life and career While recovering from childhood illnesses, Lainé discovered novelists Alexandre Dumas, père and Victor Hugo, aspiring to their kind of voluminous writing, but in school he focused on philosophy and history, becoming an avid student of Immanuel Kant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Martin Heidegger. He was also drawn to Marxism (both by conviction and from a desire to rile his parents) and he chose Russian as his second foreign language, permitting him to read Anton Chekhov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the original. Lainé studied philosophy at l'École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and began his career as a teacher first at thLycà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |