jacqueline harpman i who have never known men

It offers a pretext for a great deal of humour and fantasy that stirs up the old myths' - Andre Brincourt, FigaroWinner of the Prix Medicis. While Aline sensibly catches the train back to her orderly life, Aline-Lucien - or Orlanda, as her bold new composite self is called in homage to Virginia Woolf - follows, dragging chaos in his wake.Jacqueline Harpman, herself once a psychoanalyst, revels in the confusion, as ego falls for alter ego and mothers, sisters and lovers begin to ask awkward questions in this unusual perceptive comedy of double selves and bisexuality.'Undoubtedly this is a novel to breathe life into characters through the unfettered use of the imagination. From here this brilliantly imaginative story runs on parallel lines.

Sick of being bullied by her mother and treated like a piece of furniture by Albert, her live-in lover, one day Aline leaps from her own skin into the far more attractive body of Lucien, whom she spots in a cafe at the Gare du Nord.

She displays incredible confidence in juggling identities and meshing together yearnings and phobias, fantasies and frustrations' - T G, L'ExpressHow would it be to jump into the skin of another? To be both a man and a woman at once? And what would happen if you found yourself attracted to yourself?Beneath a mousy exterior, 35-year-old college lecturer Aline seethes with frustration. Funny, subtle, poignant.' - Nadine Sautel, Magazine litteraire'Jacqueline Harpman drags us into one of those sexual phantasmagorias that are her own secret. Jacqueline Harpman I Who Have Never Known Men (Vintage Editions) Paperback Jby Jacqueline Harpman (Author) 742 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.29 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 61.98 2 Used from 55.00 Paperback 12.89 3 Used from 9.82 11 New from 7.87 Mass Market Paperback 8.94 18 Used from 1. 'A magical novel on the theme of androgyny.

Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.Download Orlanda Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.Īs the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl-the fortieth prisoner-sits alone and outcast in the corner. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage.

Jacqueline harpman i who have never known men