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current frenchy read: La chauve suivi de la leçon by Lonesco Cantatrice

it is originally a play however it was $5 at my local bookstore so i couldn’t resist

no longer than a sigh, anne philipe (1964) — english translation

until his death in 1959 gérard philipe was the greatest star of the french theatre and cinema. the death of someone so young, alive and brilliant shocked and grieved a large public, and in this book his widow, anne philipe, conveys with classic simplicity and economy the personal tragedy. no longer than a sigh can be read purely as a novel: it is the story of a woman who has loved her husband and who has lost him. his illness was sudden; after an operation she knew that he would die and let him believe he would recover. now that he is dead, truth again becomes all-important and it is only in trying to understand love, death, suffering that anne philipe sees the possibility of living again. the integrity and lucidity of this attempt to re-establish balance in her disrupted world are almost unbearably poignant. unable to accept the comfort of belief in life after death, too intellectually honest to take refuge in suicide, fantasy or misery, anne philipe looks at life itself, with all its memories, for a solution to grief which is worthy of her and gérard's life together. translated from the french by cornelia schaeffer

jacket photograph by agnès varda jacket design by madeleine dinkel

« we all had some coffee. after that i don’t know any more. the night passed. » - the stranger

paris, france 🥀

« ainsi va le monde. ce n’est pas am faute »

okay so there's my favorite french book (it's kinda cliché gang romance lmao) that I read back when it was on wattpad (it's The Devil's Sons by Chloe Wallerand), now it's a published book!!!

and the song 'bloodline' by Alex Warren made me think of it again!!

"the devil's sons" follow Avalone and basically she gonna end up joining a norse pagan gang (the author of the book is pagan!!) and it's really found family and everything and i remember loving it so much!!!

it's a serie and i remember that on one of the later book we see my favorite character for the first time and the fact is, the book saved my life

Now I'm just thinking about the fact that I need to find the physical books one day as a way to give my 15yo self what they wanted, and to honor the fact that fuck I'm alive ??

Anyway I'm getting so nostalgic over this books like i don't even know if they were that good; but I miss my family you know?