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Story of Blanche and Marie

Enquist Per Olov
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099483731
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
159 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Enquist Per Olov
Oversetter
Nunnally Tiina

Om bidragsyterne

Per Olov Enquist is one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers: a novelist, playwright and poet with works published in more than twenty-five countries. His novel, The Visit of the Royal Physician, was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2003.

Story of Blanche and Marie

Enquist Per Olov
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Enquist Per Olov
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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He is one of the contemporary novel's greatest human investigators

- Paul Binding, Independent on Sunday

The glimpsed idea of a wider, more poetic sensibility linking art, death, reading and love

- James Urquhart, Mail on Sunday

Enquist brings out the sad sorority of two women who suffered grotesquely for love and work

- Brenda Maddox, The Times

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Anyone who read Per Olov Enquists dazzling novel...<i>The Visit of the Royal Physician</i>...will not be surprised to hear that he has written another fascinating, highly charged miracle of compression...<b>Fiction rarely gets more interesting than this</b>

- John de Falbe, Spectator

Dizzy with associations and questions, full of interest and appetite and the satisfactions of a good mind...often funny

- Anne Enright, Guardian

Dense, perverse and fascinating biographical fiction

- Caroline Moore, Sunday Telegraph

Blanche's story is tragic and this part fact/part fiction account of her relationship with Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie is touching and disturbing... thought provoking and original

Big Issue

Enquist weaves fact and fiction with such skill that his novel sometimes reads like a historical account of true events

- Vanessa Curtis, Scotland on Sunday

He treats these big themes with miniaturist care and attention, while his characters, trapped in history like insects in amber, are deeply and sympathetically observed...The result is exhilarating, elliptical, concise, dense, and richly rewarding

- Christopher Hart, Literary Review

In 1878, Blanche Wittman was committed to Salpêtrière Hospital as an hysteric and placed in the care of the famous M. Charcot, who regularly displayed her, in a cataleptic state, before a public audience. Over time, the nature of her participation in these demonstrations changed; she graduated from patient to assistant and on leaving the hospital, was hired by Marie Curie to work in her Paris laboratory.On 17 February 1898, radium was discovered and Blanche's exposure to it necessitated the amputation of all her limbs, save one. As for Marie, her husband and collaborator Pierre was weakened by illness and subsequently killed having wandered in front of an oncoming horse and cart.Following this, she embarked on an ill-fated love affair, which, in 1911, almost cost her the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Using Blanche's notebooks - 'The Book of Questions' - Enquist deftly weaves fact and fiction in a powerful tale of scientific discovery, death, art love and the extraordinary relationship of two remarkable women at the dawn of a century of tremendous change.The Story of Blanche and Marie was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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In 1878, Blanche Wittman was committed to Salpetriere Hospital as an hysteric and placed in the care of the famous M Charcot, who regularly displayed her, in a cataleptic state, before a public audience. On 17 February 1898, radium was discovered and Blanche's exposure to it necessitated the amputation of all her limbs, save one.
Les mer
The moving, passionate and ultimately tragic story of Marie Curie and her discovery of radium. By the author of The Visit of the Royal Physician, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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He is one of the contemporary novel's greatest human investigators

- Paul Binding, Independent on Sunday

The glimpsed idea of a wider, more poetic sensibility linking art, death, reading and love

- James Urquhart, Mail on Sunday

Enquist brings out the sad sorority of two women who suffered grotesquely for love and work

- Brenda Maddox, The Times

Se alle

Anyone who read Per Olov Enquists dazzling novel...<i>The Visit of the Royal Physician</i>...will not be surprised to hear that he has written another fascinating, highly charged miracle of compression...<b>Fiction rarely gets more interesting than this</b>

- John de Falbe, Spectator

Dizzy with associations and questions, full of interest and appetite and the satisfactions of a good mind...often funny

- Anne Enright, Guardian

Dense, perverse and fascinating biographical fiction

- Caroline Moore, Sunday Telegraph

Blanche's story is tragic and this part fact/part fiction account of her relationship with Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie is touching and disturbing... thought provoking and original

Big Issue

Enquist weaves fact and fiction with such skill that his novel sometimes reads like a historical account of true events

- Vanessa Curtis, Scotland on Sunday

He treats these big themes with miniaturist care and attention, while his characters, trapped in history like insects in amber, are deeply and sympathetically observed...The result is exhilarating, elliptical, concise, dense, and richly rewarding

- Christopher Hart, Literary Review

In 1878, Blanche Wittman was committed to Salpêtrière Hospital as an hysteric and placed in the care of the famous M. Charcot, who regularly displayed her, in a cataleptic state, before a public audience. Over time, the nature of her participation in these demonstrations changed; she graduated from patient to assistant and on leaving the hospital, was hired by Marie Curie to work in her Paris laboratory.On 17 February 1898, radium was discovered and Blanche's exposure to it necessitated the amputation of all her limbs, save one. As for Marie, her husband and collaborator Pierre was weakened by illness and subsequently killed having wandered in front of an oncoming horse and cart.Following this, she embarked on an ill-fated love affair, which, in 1911, almost cost her the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Using Blanche's notebooks - 'The Book of Questions' - Enquist deftly weaves fact and fiction in a powerful tale of scientific discovery, death, art love and the extraordinary relationship of two remarkable women at the dawn of a century of tremendous change.The Story of Blanche and Marie was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Les mer
In 1878, Blanche Wittman was committed to Salpetriere Hospital as an hysteric and placed in the care of the famous M Charcot, who regularly displayed her, in a cataleptic state, before a public audience. On 17 February 1898, radium was discovered and Blanche's exposure to it necessitated the amputation of all her limbs, save one.
Les mer
The moving, passionate and ultimately tragic story of Marie Curie and her discovery of radium. By the author of The Visit of the Royal Physician, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099483731
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
159 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Enquist Per Olov
Oversetter
Nunnally Tiina

Om bidragsyterne

Per Olov Enquist is one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers: a novelist, playwright and poet with works published in more than twenty-five countries. His novel, The Visit of the Royal Physician, was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2003.

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