Vestiaire de la littérature : Cent petites confections
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Authors: Martine Boyer-Weinmann ; Denis Reynaud
Publishing House : Champ Vallon
Publication Date: August 22, 2019
Which writer conceives the writing of a novel as an upside-down striptease? Which colleague wanted to build his work like a dress, on the grounds that a new fashion from Worth was as important as the war of 1970? Which one maintains that we do not change our opinions and masters more than our socks? Which creature wished that the dress she had wanted and stitched was crumpled? Which poet would have preferred to be knocked down and stung by the glare of a raised skirt rather than by a garçonnier pants? Which other lets spin his sentence at full speed, with the frou-frou of these dresses which go lengthening, shortening and lengthening with the liking of the day? Which famous character never wore a nightcap, nor a robe, nor a bathrobe, nor slippers? Which other, acquiring with age the freedom to dress, bought in Venice a revolutionary jacket to approach the year 1968?The reader who loves clothes and books will find the answer to these and many other important questions in this frivolous and scholarly book that explores the multiple links between fashion and literature, and argues that the pleasure of reading is in discovering what characters have in their pockets and under their coats as much as what they have in their heads.
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