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Article: La cour des Adieux.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Tiphaine Samoyault. La cour des Adieux. Paris. Nadeau. 1999. 164 pages. 90 F. ISBN 2-86231-153-7.
AN INTERESTING PROJECT, an original approach, and an often poetical style contrast the stagnant stability of a chateau with the vacillating instability of childhood and especially that of remembering the past. If this were not complicated enough, the chateau is enormous (featuring 3,200 windows which open onto the courtyard of the title) and the art of recounting the past is doubled through the use of cameras to film the narrator's efforts. Her stated goal is the desire to "ecrire trois vies de mensonges et de pluies, elles reveillent ma nuit en sept hemispheres ...