Catherine Lépront (June 1951, Le Creusot â€" 19 August 2012)[1] was a
French novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist.Catherine
Lépront was born into a family of doctors and musicians. First of all
a liberal nurse (an experience which she described in her narrative
Des gens du monde), she was a playwright and literary advisor for the
Éditions Gallimard. Her novels intertwine intimate and family history
and political history. The memory of the Second World War, the
Indochina War, the Algerian War, the colonial tragedies and those of
the totalitarian world haunts her characters on which she looks with
empathy and tender irony. All her work is marked by a profound
criticism of bourgeois hypocrisy, arbitrary power and obtuse
conformity. She excels at reproducing oral speech, while deepening the
subtleties of inner reflections, intrigues with acute psychological
tensions, and creating a poetic and lyrical climate that remind of
Virginia Woolf and some Russian writers. Music, painting, and artistic
creation in general played a decisive role here.Her second husband was
the Germanic philosopher Marc de Launay [fr].
French novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist.Catherine
Lépront was born into a family of doctors and musicians. First of all
a liberal nurse (an experience which she described in her narrative
Des gens du monde), she was a playwright and literary advisor for the
Éditions Gallimard. Her novels intertwine intimate and family history
and political history. The memory of the Second World War, the
Indochina War, the Algerian War, the colonial tragedies and those of
the totalitarian world haunts her characters on which she looks with
empathy and tender irony. All her work is marked by a profound
criticism of bourgeois hypocrisy, arbitrary power and obtuse
conformity. She excels at reproducing oral speech, while deepening the
subtleties of inner reflections, intrigues with acute psychological
tensions, and creating a poetic and lyrical climate that remind of
Virginia Woolf and some Russian writers. Music, painting, and artistic
creation in general played a decisive role here.Her second husband was
the Germanic philosopher Marc de Launay [fr].
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