
In the dreamy summer days of the new year, a year without rules or lists for reading, I pick up what my hand falls upon. And this slender book is a beautiful little hardback published by The Women’s Press in 1989. The author is not known to me. The translation, for she is a Belgian writer, is by an Englishwoman, Faith Evans, and in her introduction she describes how she first read the author in French in 1987, even though her books had been published in the 1940’s and Simone de Beauvoir had praised them in The Second Sex. Continue reading Madeleine Bourdouxhe : A Nail, A Rose