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À son image : roman, Jérôme Ferrari

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On an evening in August, Antonia, strolling on the port of Calvi after a Saturday to immortalize the festivities of a wedding under the lens of her camera, meets a group of legionaries among whom she recognizes Dragan, formerly met during the war in former Yugoslavia. After hours of fiery conversation, the young woman, although exhausted, decides to reach the south of the island, where she lives. A lurch rushes her car into a ravine: she is killed instantly. The funeral service of the deceased will be celebrated by a priest who is none other than his uncle and godfather, who, to make up for his infinite sadness, has promised to adhere strictly to the rules enacted by the liturgy. But, in the furnace of the little church, the images break out of all memories, reconstructing the trajectory of the girl who dreamed of being a photographer, of the girl who, in the mid-1980s, threw herself into the arms of a too seductive nationalist activist before resolving to work for a local newspaper where the "photographic report" did not seem to obey other purposes than to perpetuate an insular community undermined by the bloody struggles between nationalist clans. It is tired of this life that Antonia, succumbing to the temptation to invent a vocation, decides, in 1991, to leave for the former Yugoslavia, attracted, like so many others before her, in the magnetic field of the war, this irrepresentable. From the failure of the individual to the painful examination of the aporias of all representations, Jérôme Ferrari explores, with this astonishing novel of humanity, the ambiguous links that image, photography, reality and death maintain.--Actes Sud
Language
fre
Work
Publication
Edition
1re édition.
Extent
218 pages
Isbn
9782330109448
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À son image : roman
Title
À son image
Title remainder
roman
Statement of responsibility
Jérôme Ferrari
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
fre
Summary
On an evening in August, Antonia, strolling on the port of Calvi after a Saturday to immortalize the festivities of a wedding under the lens of her camera, meets a group of legionaries among whom she recognizes Dragan, formerly met during the war in former Yugoslavia. After hours of fiery conversation, the young woman, although exhausted, decides to reach the south of the island, where she lives. A lurch rushes her car into a ravine: she is killed instantly. The funeral service of the deceased will be celebrated by a priest who is none other than his uncle and godfather, who, to make up for his infinite sadness, has promised to adhere strictly to the rules enacted by the liturgy. But, in the furnace of the little church, the images break out of all memories, reconstructing the trajectory of the girl who dreamed of being a photographer, of the girl who, in the mid-1980s, threw herself into the arms of a too seductive nationalist activist before resolving to work for a local newspaper where the "photographic report" did not seem to obey other purposes than to perpetuate an insular community undermined by the bloody struggles between nationalist clans. It is tired of this life that Antonia, succumbing to the temptation to invent a vocation, decides, in 1991, to leave for the former Yugoslavia, attracted, like so many others before her, in the magnetic field of the war, this irrepresentable. From the failure of the individual to the painful examination of the aporias of all representations, Jérôme Ferrari explores, with this astonishing novel of humanity, the ambiguous links that image, photography, reality and death maintain.--Actes Sud
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AUXAM
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1968-
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Ferrari, Jérôme
Dewey number
843
Index
no index present
LC call number
PQ2706.E768
LC item number
A86 2018
Literary form
fiction
Series statement
"Domaine français"
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  • Women photographers
  • Femmes photographes
  • Yugoslav War, 1991-1995
  • Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, 1991-1995
Label
À son image : roman, Jérôme Ferrari
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Publication
Copyright
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
8334426
Dimensions
22 cm.
Edition
1re édition.
Extent
218 pages
Isbn
9782330109448
Isbn Type
(broché)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
on1049417124
Label
À son image : roman, Jérôme Ferrari
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
8334426
Dimensions
22 cm.
Edition
1re édition.
Extent
218 pages
Isbn
9782330109448
Isbn Type
(broché)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
on1049417124

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