“Virginia Woolf makes me laugh out loud. And Marcel Proust: twisting! ”

Lybian on the paternal side, Russian Jew on the maternal side… A rich and tormented heredity that “the writer for youth and old age”, humor over the shoulder, sublime with mad creativity.

She said to herself “Writer”, voluntarily masculine, an assumed trace of its joyful inconsistencies and the passage of time. Agnès Desarthe, 55, has been promoting her imagination and intelligence for thirty years at the top of children’s literature and literature. “Old age” to use a phrase she likes. On the children’s side, she had a baby returned from the nursery for antisocial behavior in How i changed my life 1 and shamed a schoolgirl with the nickname “Midday Mimolette” in The Big Questions.

On the adult side, she made you scream “Adapting excites me! “ to an original converted into a restaurant owner in Eat me 2, threw a penniless girl to storm 1900 Paris in This changing heart, translated from English books by Virginia Woolf, Alice Munro, Cynthia Ozick… Her new novel, The Eternal Bridegroom, plays the frenzied score of a waltz a thousand times, danced by an impossible couple, from kindergarten to adulthood. An accomplished book, brilliant and deep, like Agnès Desarthe, whom her friends compare to a duck: “On the surface, it slips, below, it pedals. “

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