Violaine Huisman

Mar 7, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Violaine Huisman |Leslie Camhi |Elizabeth Strout |Vigdis Hjorth

The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman, translated by Leslie CamhiOriginally published in French and longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, Violaine Huisman’s debut novel, The Book of Mother, is a fictionalised memoir of the author’s childhood as she navigates life with her unpredictable and chaotic mother.

Jan 4, 2024 | bibliosurf.com | Violaine Huisman

Accueil > Tops, genres, pays et tags > Littératures européennes > Littérature française fil du web : du 04-01-2024 au 19-02-2024 4ème de couv « Mon père était un homme d’une autre génération, aurait-on dit pour excuser sa misogynie ou son pédantisme, un homme dont les succès justifiaient l’arrogance, dont l’affabilité surprenait autant que la fureur, dont la tendresse excessive, baroque, totalement débridée, trahissait l’excentricité ou expliquait en partie l’attachement qu’il inspirait en...

May 22, 2023 | textezurkunst.de | Violaine Huisman

With the second text of her new TZK column, “Objets Trouvés,” which we publish here at irregular intervals on Mondays, Violaine Huisman takes us on a family trip to the Museo del Prado. The venerable institution is a maze of rooms and corridors, the works exhibited there allow multiple avenues of reception. Her two daughters in tow, Huisman chooses Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas as a point of departure for a little foray into autofiction.

Apr 17, 2023 | textezurkunst.de | Violaine Huisman

The Western literary canon has long been complicit in upholding patriarchal power. Ernest Hemingway’s staccato sentences have contributed as much to the consolidation of sexist stereotypes as Marcel Proust’s long and winding convolutions. The question of how we deal today with classics that continue to fascinate us, and yet at the same time fundamentally annoy us, can hardly be answered unambiguously.

Apr 17, 2023 | textezurkunst.de | Violaine Huisman

The Western literary canon has long been complicit in upholding patriarchal power. Ernest Hemingway’s staccato sentences have contributed as much to the consolidation of sexist stereotypes as Marcel Proust’s long and winding convolutions. The question of how we deal today with classics that continue to fascinate us, and yet at the same time fundamentally annoy us, can hardly be answered unambiguously.