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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

The Stalinist's Wife

by (author) France Théoret

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 2013
Category
Short Stories (single author)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550716306
    Publish Date
    Apr 2013
    List Price
    $20.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550716313
    Publish Date
    Jan 2013
    List Price
    $9.95

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Description

Louise Aubert leaves Mathieu Lord when he joins the Stalinist party. Fifteen years later, she writes a letter in which she dares express her vision of their common history, marked by authoritarianism, mental cruelty and the absence of sharing in the name of love. In the story that follows this letter, Louise recalls each sequence of her break with Mathieu and exposes the duplicity of the intellectual avant-garde. She also describes how she re-entered society freed from censorship and how she finds the inner strength to speak the truth. La Femme du stalinien is the final novel of a trilogy that includes L'Homme qui peignait Staline [1989] and Les Apparatchiks vont à la mer Noire [2004].

About the author

France Théoret holds a doctorate in French Studies from the University of Sherbrooke. After nineteen years of teaching, she quit to devote herself full-time to writing. Laurence, translated for The Mercury Press by Gail Scott, is Théoret’s eleventh book; previous titles include The Man Who Painted Stalin, Nous parlerons comme on écrit, Nécessairement putain, and Entre raison et déraison.

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Awards

  • Short-listed, Governor General's Award for Translation