NARRATIVE – For the writer’s centenary this year, his daughter Marie Nimier is publishing a book, The Dark Side of the Queen (Mercure de France) which reveals a lackluster episode in his father’s life: he had seduced then abandoned a young girl who was still a high school student. Hussar but not gentleman.
Marie Nimier burst into literature forty years ago, with a heavy surname. Who doesn’t know his father Roger, a prodigal novelist, leader of the hussars who would have been a hundred years old this year. His tragic death in 1962 behind the wheel of a sports car catapulted him to legendary status; since then the literary right had its James Dean. In 2004, Marie Nimier lifted the veil with The Queen of Silence story of a little girl disconcerted by the discrepancy between the character in the story of letters, whom she hears celebrated here and there, and her childhood memories.
The Dark Side of the Queen reveals a dark aspect of Roger Nimier, a relationship to life, to women which does not fail to question. It is sure to spark controversy.
“Madame Nimier is someone”
Marie Nimier first paints the portrait of a mother. Madame Veuve Nimier was her company name for a long time. The novel by Nimier père, Sad Childrenended, premonitory, with a car accident and this sentence…
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