Magnus is a deeply moving and enigmatic novel about the Holocaust. It
has been Sylvie Germain's most commercially successful novel in
France.Magnus is a man searching for his own identity, who pieces
together the complex puzzle of his life, which turns out to be closer
to a painting by Edward Munch than the romantic tale of family heroism
and self-sacrifice on which he was nurtured by the woman he believed
was his mother.In Magnus, Sylvie Germain uses imagination and
intuition to unlock the enigma of human life and confer on history the
power of myth and fable.Magnus won the Goncourt Lyceen Prize, selected
by French High School Students as the best novel of the year from the
main Goncourt Prize Shortlist. It is a short and profound novel
suitable for 16-year-olds upwards and is a good starting point for
exploration of the Holocaust.Sylvie Germain was born in Chateauroux in
Central France in 1954. She read philosophy at the Sorbonne, being
awarded a doctorate. From 1987 until the summer of 1993 she taught
philosophy at the French School in Prague. She now lives in Angouleme.
Sylvie Germain is the author of thirteen works of fiction, eleven of
which have been published by Dedalus, a study of the painter Vermeer
and a religious meditation. Her work has been translated into twenty
one languages and has received worldwide acclaim. Sylvie Germain's
first novel The Book of Nights was published to France to great
acclaim in 1985. It has won five literary prizes as well as the TLS
Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize in England.The novel's story is
continued in Night of Amber in 1987. Her third novel Days of Anger won
the Prix Femina in 1989. It was followed by The Medusa Child in 1991
and The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague in 1992, the beginning
of her Prague trilogy, continued with Infinite Possibilities in 1993
and then Invitation to a Journey (L'Eclats du sel). The Book of Tobias
saw a return to rural France and la France profonde, followed in 2002
by The Song of False Lovers (Chanson des Mal-Aimants). Her next novel
Magnus, was written in fragments, and creates a powerful study of the
Holocaust and the long shadow it left. It won the Goncourt Lyceen
Prize for the best French novel of 2005. It was published by Dedalus
in 2008 followed by Hidden Lives in the autumn of 2010.
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ISBN
9781910213261
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Dedalus
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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