George Sand, Maud Ventura, Zhang Yueran, Elizabeth von Arnim… Four authors that Charlotte Casiraghi has chosen to highlight in this new capsule of “Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon” bringing together her reading recommendations for the winter months . Four feathers and four singular destinies of women, starting with George Sand, whose quest for independence is already felt when readingIndianathe first novel she published under her pseudonym, recounting the unhappy existence of a young Creole woman married to an authoritarian and violent old colonel. “Captivating and still relevant,” underlines Charlotte Casiraghi, “this novel paints the portrait of a woman with whom we can still identify today.”
Feminist novels
Charlotte Casiraghi also cites Lovethe novel Elizabeth von Arnim – narrating the passionate relationship of Catherine, a 47-year-old widow, with Christopher, a fiery young man between the wars –, The highlight by Zhang Yueran – a reunion between two thirty-somethings, a pretext for an evocation of a contemporary China not completely unscathed by the outbursts of the Cultural Revolution –, but also My husbandMaud Ventura’s first novel in which she dissects the love that turns into the obsession of a woman for her husband.
Letters and philosophy
With this selection, the spokesperson and ambassador of the Chanel house confesses her love of romantic literature as a fictional counterpart to philosophy – her other passion – when both tend towards the same horizon. “Sometimes, the novel is more effective than a work of philosophy or psychology,” she says in the short film accompanying her selection. Bergson says that literature is a science of the human heart. It is probe the complexity of our relationship to the world, of our relationships.” A declaration which echoes the words shared on the website of the Monaco Philosophical Meetings of which she is president and founder: “Philosophy is a human awareness of reality, a questioning which also allows us to act based on values and principles , in an era of confusion and prejudices, it enlightens us and sometimes deconstructs our certainties to help us make sense of our actions.
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