Mixed Marriage
Publisher
:
Stock
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782234052635
Number of pages
:
336
Description
● Short-listed for the Prix Médicis
Outstanding for the intensity of its story and for the risks taken by the author in writing it...
-Philippe Sollers/Le Journal du Dimanche
As singular as an Echenoz, as troubling as a Modiano, and more profound than a Houellebecq, we would without hesitation give this young author [...] the Goncourt.
-Marie Claire
Mariage Mixte leaves one breathless...
-Le Magazine Littéraire
The notorious tale of the “affaire Turquin,” about a veterinarian in Nice in 1997, becomes the basis for a best-selling novel and succès de scandale about identity and self-alienation. Based on a true family drama, Marc Weitzmann’s dark novel recounts the story of Jean-Christophe Cottard, a veterinarian accused of murdering his son.
On the surface, Cottard’s life seems idyllic: He has a wife, a child, a good job, and a place in the high society of Nice. But with his son’s sudden disappearance, everything falls apart to reveal layers of bizarre sexual perversion, abuse, psychological manipulation—and the onset of anti-Semitic behavior once his wife breaks the news about her Jewish lover. The narrator, a writer looking for inspiration, investigates the crime and digs into the family members’ lives. What really happened to the child? How far can you delve into your own madness to discover the madness of others?
Skillfully blurring the line that separates fiction from reality, Weitzmann has created a psychological masterpiece. The real “affaire Turquin” preceded by a few years the rise of a wave of anti-Semitism in France that the novel subtly reveals.
Author
Marc Weitzmann : Marc Weitzmann spent 10 years as the editor-in-chief of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles. He is the author of Enquête (Actes Sud, 1996), Chaos (Grasset, 1997), Livre de guerre (Stock, 2001), and Une place dans le monde (Stock, 2002), among other works. He received a residential fellowship to the McDowell Colony in 2003 and translated into French David Rieff’s Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir.
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