In September, the Albertine Book Club will discuss Albertine Sarrazin’s Astragal, translated from the French by Patsy Southgateand and published by New Directions. As if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. “L’Astragale” is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin’s heroine Anne breaks as she leaps from her jail cell to freedom. · Overview. As alive as a Godard movie, this lost classic of ’60s French literature is back. As if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. “L’astragale” is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin’s heroine Anne breaks as she leaps from her jail cell to Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation. Albertine Sarrazin’s novel Astragal, originally published in , is full of a free-wheeling, self-mythologizing attitude rare in modern fiction, but which evokes an era which thrived on heroes who took control of their own fates, seeking complete personal freedom even if it meant living beyond the law - an attitude which was a contributing factor in the conflicts of /5.
Albertine Sarrazin (17 September — 10 July ) 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. Astragal burst onto the French literary scene in ; its fiery and vivacious style was entirely new, and Sarrazin became a celebrity overnight. But as fate would have it, Sarrazin herself kept running into trouble with the law, even as she became a star. She died from a botched surgery at the height of her fame. Read "Astragal" by Albertine Sarrazin available from Rakuten Kobo. As alive as a Godard movie, this lost classic of '60s French literature is back As if the reader were riding shotgun, th.
Overview. As alive as a Godard movie, this lost classic of ’60s French literature is back. As if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. “L’astragale” is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin’s heroine Anne breaks as she leaps from her jail cell to freedom. Died. Albertine Sarrazin (17 September — 10 July ) 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. In September, the Albertine Book Club will discuss Albertine Sarrazin’s Astragal (), translated from the French by Patsy Southgateand and published by New Directions. As if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. “L’Astragale” is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin’s heroine Anne breaks as she leaps from her jail cell to freedom.
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