Julie Mazzieri
Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot
Fiction French-Language
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Julie Mazzieri, Velone-Orneto (France)
Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot.
(Éditions José Corti;
distributed by Diffusion Dimédia)
(ISBN 978-2-7143-0987-7)
Biography
Julie Mazzieri wins a GG with her first novel. She studied literature at the Université de Montréal (B.A.) and at McGill University (M.A. and Ph.D.), where, in 2006, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the work of Georges Bernanos. She has written articles on the fiction of Bernanos, Faulkner, Dostoyevsky and Denis de Rougemont, and has had several translations published in literary journals. She is currently working on the French translation of an unpublished work by Jane Bowles. Born in Saint-Paul-de-Chester, Quebec, Julie Mazzieri now lives in Corsica.
Jury's comment
An exceptionally polished novel, the result of an exemplary mastery of narrative. The text is deep, dark and implacable, and the tight, suspenseful writing stays with us long after the book is finished. The author sets herself the challenge of making the story believable, and she has succeeded brilliantly.