Isadora - French Edition Author:Amelia Gray, Nathalie Bru (Translator) Isadora Duncan est au sommet de sa carrière, quand, en 1913, ses deux enfants meurent à Paris dans un accident de voiture. Incapable de danser, et à la limite de la folie, elle entame alors un voyage en Méditerranée en quête d’une manière de se réinventer en tant que femme et en tant q... more »u’artiste. Avec ce roman biographique, féministe et psychologique d’une rare finesse, Amelia Gray dresse le portrait magistral de l’une des plus grandes artistes du XXe siècle. C’est flamboyant, c’est créatif, c’est cruel, terriblement ambitieux aussi, comme si l’écriture d’Amelia Gray collait parfaitement au rythme et aux mouvements de la danse d’Isadora.
Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan’s life and the stuff of her spirit, Amelia Gray delivers an incredibly imaginative portrait of the artist
In 1913, the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering. But for one woman, the darkness of a new era had already made itself at home. Isadora Duncan would come to be known as the mother of modern dance, but in the spring of 1913 she was a grieving mother, after a freak accident in Paris resulted in the drowning death of her two young children.
The accident cracked Isadora’s life in two: on one side, the brilliant young talent who captivated audiences the world over; on the other, a heartbroken mother spinning dangerously on the edge of sanity.
Isadora is a shocking and visceral portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life. In her breakout novel, Amelia Gray offers a relentless portrayal of a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. Isadora seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the listener to a woman who lived and loved without limits, even in the darkest days of her life.« less