Deze keer ben ik er wel heel vroeg ben. Dit boek komt pas volgende herfst uit. Maar ik ben nu al zo geïntrigeerd, dat ik niet meer kan wachten:
"Marie de Gournay was the untutored daughter of a minor aristocrat in the 16th century. She spent her days in her father's library of 200 hundred books and by the time she was a young woman had taught herself Latin, by comparing texts. She also came across the first two volumes of the essays of Montaigne and was so excited by them that she had to be given a soporific to calm her down. She determined to meet him, and to become a professional writer. The novel, Apology For The Woman Writing, traces Marie de Gournay's life from youth and the outrageous ambition to be an independent woman writer, to the lived reality of her daydreams."*
Het boek wordt geschreven door Jenny Diski, die op zich al even intrigerend is.
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