Marieke Aucante opens a new chapter in her long literary adventure. With “Write to Me”, the author from Sologne becomes a correspondent and lover for the duration of a sensual and poetic book.
With Write to Me, Marieke Aucante has written a magnificent story of passion and forest. Photo credit Jean-Luc Vezon
By Jean-Luc Vezon.
A little gem of romanticism where the words of passionate love intertwine and intertwine in an ode to nature. Thus could one qualify Write to meepistolary novel (L’Andriague Éditions) and 25th book by the author of Little Brother the Storm. (1) A novel written in the first person drawn from the secret and personal story of Marieke Aucante in ancient times when digital technology did not exist and letters traveled by the magic of the Post Office.
The story begins on November 15th in the depths of the Sologne forest, near Yvoy-le-Marron, the birthplace of her ancestors, where M. lives. She receives an enchanting letter from Pierre who “throws freshness and hope on the dark autumn day, suddenly shaking off an old multi-colored desire ” The stranger is one of her readers and handles words with talent. She responds to him with fervor.
Through the letters, at the surface of words, a vibrant and platonic passion will then be born, the development of which we follow day after day. In the mist of the icy winter, M’s heart is set ablaze. A promise of happiness with this dreamed and mysterious man. Their romantic meeting will be the culmination of these exchanges where floats the absolute of feminine desire and the quest for the ideal.
“ Writing makes love immortal » writes Pierre. This 126-page novel ends a few months later in the spring… With Écrire-moi, Marieke Aucante has achieved a very beautiful, chiseled and intimate literary work. It will delight women but also men, « these ignorant of love” who too often confuse their desire-pleasure with love.
(1) Marieke Aucante has also just published Les Succulentes, a book of short stories about gastronomy that cover all registers: humor, tragedy, comicality, eroticism….
A publishing house rooted in Loiret
L’Andriague, a fabulous monster used as a mount by a hero in ancient stories and legends, is an associative publishing house based in Loiret in Saint-Hilaire-sur-Puiseaux. It publishes French and French-speaking literature with two or three works per year.
The publishing house was created in 2021 with an editorial line focused on travel in the broad sense (internal and external), abroad, elsewhere, exile and nostalgia for the native country. Our goal is to promote young authors or authors with little media coverage who write quality texts. We also give voice to artists whose mode of expression is not (or not primarily) writing: painters, actors, calligraphers, etc. “, explains its founder, the poet and novelist Frédérique de Lignières, known for her very beautiful fantasy novel The Alliance.
The Andriague books are printed in Loiret (Les impressions réunies in Ingré) and the publishing house participates in numerous book fairs and signing sessions in the region, far from the ambient Parisianism which predominates in the publishing world.
The association also strives to create and host events around books and literature, particularly in rural areas. With the support of the town of Lorris, it has created the Guillaume de Lorris literary prize awarded each year to an unpublished novel manuscript. The first edition in 2023 was devoted to “En attendant” by Anne-Sophie Guénéguès.
Andriague also published a solidarity book in 2023 – “The Deer Shepherd” – all of whose income is donated to the Tours association “Girls at School and Solidarity” which fights for the education of girls and against forced marriage in West Africa.
“ Our projects for the coming months and years are extremely numerous. In particular, we intend to: organize a conference on imaginary literature, participate in the meetings of French-speaking writers in San Diego in the USA or publish a bilingual book to make known the Korean poetesses of the past. ” concludes Frédérique de Lignières.
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