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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 103 pages
Poids : 214 g
Dimensions : 14cm X 21cm
ISBN : 978-2-336-58883-4
EAN : 9782336588834

An anatomy of love

De Christine Rebourg-Roesler,

Chez L'Harmattan

Collection(s) | L'orizzonte

Paru le 27/01/2026

Broché 103 pages

translated by Elise Argo, Juliette Reeder & Eric Turcat

Quatrième de couverture

If a roman a clef conceals actual individuals behind fictional identities, then An Anatomy of Love, with its thinly veiled autobiographical allusions, definitely fits the label. However, neither one of its protagonists is ever named, which would then have us believe that the key or indeed keys to this gem of a novella might be found elsewhere. For instance, could its author's breadth of artistic references, from Ronsard to Cezanne and from Montaigne to Rothko, pave the way to an aesthetics of time far broader than a mere typology of passion ? Possibly. Nonetheless, Rebourg-Roesler remains first and foremost a psychologist, and, as such, even the most poetically sensitive of her narrative introspection brutally cuts to the core of her readers' deepest vulnerabilities.

Biographie

Christine Rebourg-Roesler was born in 1955 in Touraine, France.
She holds a doctorate in psychology and for twenty-five years served as coordinator of a psychology department within a Center for Neuroscience Applied to Psychiatry in Alsace.
Later, as a associate professor at the University of Nancy, she taught university courses in psychopathology, illuminating both the diagnostic and therapeutic fields.
Today, she lives in Montreux, Switzerland, where she continues her research and writing, but where her latest publications have focused more on fictional works of both prose (Une entaille dans la chair du temps and Le Ciel s'ouvrira) and poetry {Les Humeurs du lac and L'Homme des étoiles et du vent).

Elise Argo and Juliette Reeder have been studying French with Eric Turcat at Oklahoma State University for the past three years. Elise, a future emergency physician, is currently completing her degree in psychology, while patiently continuing to humor Eric's elitist obsession with cultural literacy, so as to also complete her French major. Juliette, our voice of technical precision and diplomatic caution, is graduating with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and may now leverage her dual, Luxembourgian American citizenship to work on either side of the pond. As for Eric, he is still pursuing the long-term project of translating an ever growing selection of Giovanni Dotoli's work, and not just into English, but, heaven help us, into Spanish as well.