La Crèche; (suivi de) Le Laveur; Bibiche; Affaire Saint-Jus; (et de) Voyage à Tuniss

By Albertine Sarrazin

1973

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En marge des romans, du Journal intime, des lettres et des poèmes, le présent recueil rassemble cinq nouvelles peu connues d'Albertine Sarrazin, Le Laveur, La Crèche, Bibiche, L'Affaire Saint Jus, écrites en prison au cours des années 1962-1963, c'est-à-dire avant L'Astragale mais après La Cavale - et un texte du printemps 1966, Voyage à Tunis, où l'auteur, libre définitivement, et dans le plein essor de sa célébrité toute neuve, découvre à la fois la joie de voir son oeuvre reconnue par un prix littéraire (le Prix des Quatre Jurys) et l'émerveillement de son premier voyage en avion vers un pays de soleil et d'amitié. Si l'on compare les cinq nouvelles au Journal de prison 1959 (Le Tunes) - on est surpris de voir comme ces deux séries de textes sont complémentaires. Car le Journal de prison est une rêverie, ou, souvent, une méditation qui introduit le lecteur à la vie intérieure de l'écrivain, sans référence aucune aux incidents de sa vie quotidienne. Au lieu que les nouvelles, sous le prétexte léger de la fiction, constituent au contraire un reportage sur la vie . carcérale. D'un côté, pure introspection - de l'autre, pure observation. Parmi ces nouvelles, il faut peut-être attacher une attention particulière à Bibiche, où, par une sorte de dédoublement théâtral qui était bien dans sa nature, Albertine Sarrazin se peint à la fois sous les traits de « Bibiche s elle-même, gamine fantasque et scandaleuse, chatte gourmande, paresseuse, griffue - et sous les traits de « Dufour », la taularde récidiviste et d'une patience à toute épreuve,

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Author

Albertine Sarrazin

Author · 9 books

Albertine Sarrazin (17 September 1937 — 10 July 1967) was a French author. She was best known for her semi-autobiographical novel L'Astragale. Born in Algiers, Algeria, she was quickly abandoned and put in the care of the social services, being then christened Albertine Damien in honour of the saint of the day she was found on. She was then adopted by a family that moved her to Aix-en-Provence. Within that dysfunctional family, she was abused by a family member and constantly quarreling with them, which led to an intense distaste for authority that stayed with her the rest of her life. Although she was intelligent and did well in her studies, Albertine's family sent her to a reformatory school in Marseille. She escaped to Paris where she satisfied her thirst for literature and art while she engaged in prostitution. In 1953, a bungled armed hold-up led to her imprisonment within Fresnes Prison. Upon escaping (and breaking her ankle in the process) she met Julien Sarrazin, and the two were soon married. The two continued to live lives of crime, spending time in and out of jail and keeping in contact through letters. In prison, Sarrazin wrote her first novels, L'Astragale and La Cavale, which were published after her release in 1964 (the astragale of the title is the French word for the talus bone, which both she and the main character of her novel broke on their escapes from jail). Astragale was translated in English at that same time. Their success allowed the married couple to settle in Montpellier where she wrote her third story, La Traversière. The novel also performed well, but she died shortly afterwards from complications during kidney surgery; she was only 29 years old. (from Wikipedia)